A Université de Sherbrooke medical student confirmed on Monday that he was the moderator of a Discord social media channel that was overrun for months by antisemitic, homophobic, sexist and other hateful content last year, but he denied he was the author of any of the slurs.

At the same time, Ahmad Mousattat defended a May 2024 Instagram video in which he appeared as the leader of the Dawson Muslim Students’ Association in which a student has a sheet thrown over his head and his apparently unconscious body is dragged away in a mock kidnapping.

In that video — which appears intended as a comedic sketch — Mousattat is not seen harming or kidnapping the fellow student. Instead, as the student’s legs are pulled away along the hallway floor, Mousattat is seen near the end of the video walking

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