Before he became President of the Arab world's most populous nation, Mohamed Morsi called Jews "bloodsuckers ... warmongers ... descendants of apes and pigs".
These comments cannot be dismissed as the ranting of a callow anti-Semitic youth; they were made during a television interview in 2010 when he was a senior official in the Muslim Brotherhood.
They surfaced on the internet a couple of weeks ago but few people paid any attention. Only now have they attracted a small amount of interest because a group of influential US politicians, including former US presidential hopeful John McCain, is in Cairo meeting senior government figures.
Mr Morsi has also said that Jews "have been fanning the flames of civil strife wherever they were" adding that they were "hostile by nature".
So far so redolent of the Nazis in the 1930s, but he went on to say that no Arabs should have any dealings with Zionists and claimed the Palestinian Authority was created by Zionists and Americans in order to oppose the will of the Palestinian people.
Away from the cameras Mr Morsi was busy advising the public that they should nurse their children and grandchildren on hatred for Jews.
That was then, this is now, and now Mr Morsi is President Morsi.
John McCain is currently in the Egyptian capital So, when dealing with him, should politicians such as the British prime minister, the American president, the Palestinian president, and the Israeli prime minister, assume that as he is now a world leader he no longer holds these dangerous views?
After all Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas might hope that Mr Morsi views him as a partner with whom to negotiate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would prefer to be viewed as a human being rather an ape or a pig.
Or, should they look at the tape of him late last year when as president he was filmed praying in a mosque and fervently saying "amen" as the preacher urges Allah to "destroy the Jews and their supporters", and make a judgement on who they are dealing with?
Describing Jews as sons of pigs and monkeys is commonplace throughout the Middle East, it is routinely repeated on the street, in mosques, in TV debates, in cartoons, and in newspaper articles. The belief is based on three different verses in the Koran - 7:166, 2:65, and 5:60.
Some open-minded Muslims argue that the verses should be seen in historical context and that they refer to the problems between Jews and the new religion of Muhammad at the time of writing. Many others view them as literal and applicable for all time.
For the Egyptian President to use the phrase in a live TV interview in the 21st century suggests he takes the latter view. Core beliefs such as those he has espoused for decades are not normally reversed by a year in power although this cannot be definitively ruled out.
In Europe, when Europeans say things such as expressed above, we recognise them as 'Fascistic'. When expressed by people in some other parts of the globe we appear frightened to call things what they are.
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