Posted on 03/29/25
| News Source: JPost
Canadian Jewish groups and politicians expressed outrage last week over the 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.
Afghanistan-born Shawarma 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 that 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 Ahmed denied.
Akbari said that he had only raised the concern as a means to end the advances of the salesman, which Justice Edward Prutsch found to be "utterly bizarre" to claim 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.