Muslim Vows to ‘Bomb Every Synagogue in Toronto’

The news was distressing, but unfortunately unsurprising in this age of rising Jew-hatred: the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that “a Toronto man” was “convicted for threatening to plant bombs in every local synagogue and kill as many Jews as he could.” It will come as no surprise to perceptive readers that the would-be mass murderer of Jews is an “Afghanistan-born shwarma restaurant owner” named Waisuddin Akbari, who appears to have brought his propensity for jihad with him to Canada from Afghanistan.

This is ironic in the extreme, as the Canadian government isn’t doing anything in particular to combat the rising antisemitism in Canada, but it does have an “Islamophobia czar,” Amira Elghawaby, whose job is apparently to make sure that no one in the Great White North is daring to think anything negative about Islam, no matter how “Allahu akbar”-screamers plow cars into pedestrians, or randomly stab people on the street, or blow up buildings around the world.

Canada’s fear of “Islamophobia,” like similar fears in other Western governments that haven’t gone as far as Ottawa has to criminalize wrongthink and enforce love for Islam, hamstrings its ability to understand, or even to be interested in understanding, people such as Waisuddin Akbari, so as to try to prevent future attacks of this kind. Akbari himself has made it abundantly clear why he plotted to murder Jews in synagogues, but no one is paying any particular attention.

Akbari, the Post reported, “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.” It seems that the aspiring jihadi “had come to 26-year-old Ahmad’s dealership for an oil change and inquired about the possibility of upgrading to a new vehicle.” But one big problem was making him hesitate about buying a new car: the Jews: 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.”

On the dock, however, Akbari followed the usual jihadist pattern of denying everything and shifting the blame elsewhere. He claimed, improbably, “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.”

Digging the hole for himself even deeper, 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.” Good call, Prutschi! It was quite clear that Akbari’s version of what happened that he offered on the stand was tendentious in the extreme, and designed solely to exonerate him. It was doomed to fail, however, as the case against him was too strong.

Akbari and Ahmed “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.” And that’s when Akbari began to make matters even worse for himself.

Akbari then “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.” On the stand, however, Akbari “claimed to the court that he could not pronounce the words ‘roaches’ and ‘insects.” Yeah, sure, that’s it. In any case, in this he departed from the Qur’an, in which Allah transforms the disobedient Jews into apes and pigs. (2:63-6; 5:5-60; 7:166)

To Ahmed’s shock, Akbari told him: “Before I go, I want you to remember my name and remember my face because the next time you see it, I’ll be on the news. I know when I’m going to die because I’m going to plant a bomb in every synagogue in Toronto and blow them up to kill as many Jews as possible.”

Why would Akbari want to do this? One reason could be because he wanted to hasten the end times and the final victory of Islam: one tradition has Muhammad saying that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.’” (Sahih Muslim 2922) One can hasten the last hour, then, by killing Jews.

If Akbari had been able to carry out his plan in Toronto, he would have thought himself righteous for killing the enemies of Allah and hastening the dawning of the last hour. What is the Canadian government making of that, and its implications? Nothing whatsoever, of course.