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“I know when I'm going to die because I'm going to plant a bomb in every synagogue in Toronto,” Waisuddin Akbari allegedly said.
Canadian Jewish groups and politicians have expressed outrage over the recently revealed threats made by a Toronto man who was convicted for threatening to plant bombs in every local synagogue and kill as many Jews as he could.
A Global News report last week highlighted the ruling, which hadn’t received much coverage.
Afghanistan-born shwarma restaurant owner Waisuddin Akbari confided in car salesman Cameron Ahmad about the plot last March, according to the November Ontario Court of Justice ruling. Ahmad notified the police about the threats under the belief that Akbari was serious about the intention to commit a violent attack.
The 41-year-old Akbari had come to 26-year-old Ahmad’s dealership for an oil change and inquired about the possibility of upgrading to a new vehicle. Akbari allegedly expressed concerns about financing a new vehicle because he believed interest payments would be funneled to the Israeli government to finance a supposed genocide against Palestinians.
Akbari told the court that it was Ahmad who raised the issue and went further by claiming that it was not just Canadian finance that flowed to Israel but that Israel controlled all global finance – a claim that Ahmad denied.
Akbari said he had only raised the concern as a means to end the advances of the salesman, which Justice Edward Prutschi found to be “utterly bizarre” to say, considering that Akbari had admitted to seeking to discuss a new car and there were better methods to end the conversation than veering into a conspiracy theory.
The two discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, regarding which Ahmad told the court he was “on the side of the Palestinian state and the innocent civilians.” He had intoned as much to Akbari, but Ahmad reportedly became uncomfortable as Akbari allegedly went on to say that in response to a supposed genocide against Palestinian people, the Israeli state and Jewish people should also be subjected to genocide.
Akbari allegedly shared his belief that the Israeli government controlled the world and was trying to exterminate non-Jews to enslave the world and poison it. He further equated Israelis and Jews to roaches and insects who should be exterminated. Akbari claimed to the court that he could not pronounce the words “roaches” and “insects.”Ahmad was reportedly shocked and scared about how calm, clear, and concise Akbari was when making his comments.
