How insane is today’s public discourse regarding Islam and jihad? This insane: imagine that it’s 1943, and the battle against National Socialism is raging with no near conclusion in sight. In the middle of the fight, a spy is caught in an Allied nation. He was sending messages back to Berlin, where they were used against the Allies in various ways. Placed on trial, a judge releases this fellow on bail, with the stipulation that he live under house arrest in a National Socialist reading room.

Crazy, right? That never would have happened in 1943. It is, however, not so crazy today, at least in the eyes of one judge in Ontario. Canada’s Global News reported Wednesday that “a Yemeni arrested as he was allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a Middle East terrorist group has been released on bail to live under house arrest at a Toronto mosque.”

Now, you may immediately object to my analogy. Releasing a National Socialist on bail and telling him to go live in a National Socialist reading room is not at all the same thing as releasing a suspected jihadi and telling him to live in a mosque, right? After all, we all know that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, right? The jihadi in question, Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, will presumably have time while he is living in the mosque to get acquainted with the true, peaceful Islam, and discard the twisted, “extremist” version that led him to try to join a jihad group in the first place.