Sure he is, as in the end he reclaimed the right. AND ENTITLEMENT to be different and ultimately remain apart as a seperate pseudospecies.
And that predicates and promotes supremacy in interactions with others.

ANYONE who holds themselves apart does so by implicitly claiming superiority, and its one thing to declare superiority in ones own land and a totally different, and invasive message when someone declares their superiority in someone elses home and lands.
Its always the invaders excuse, that they were superior and supreme over those that they invaded and attempt to conquer.

In that theocratic mindset, he's done nothing wrong, the spin is a bit different but the end result is no different from the others.