Holy shit I just realized what that dude did. When his own source basically disproved what he was saying he replied with this:

I used a deliberately “generous” source that still admits that the event happened. I could have used a much more incendiary one, but I didn’t.

I don’t know how to read that except as “I could have used a super Islamophobic and hateful source but I didn’t.” Dude this is like when a white person says to a black person “hey I could have called you an n-word but I didn’t.”

Oh jeez I didn't even realize that. Yeah that's pretty bad, IMO.