Canada: Muslims seek to erect Muslim housing complex in Jewish community

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What could possibly go wrong? The proposed development is located in the heart of one of Canada’s largest Jewish communities. This monstrosity of a development will stick a knife through the heart of this quiet and largely Jewish populated community.

The Toronto Star noted the obvious in 2014: “The units would not be exclusive to Muslims, but the ISIJ expects the proximity to the mosque will attract primarily residents of Islamic faith.”

The proposed development is on the site of the Jaffari Community Centre, which according to the Toronto chapter of the Jewish Defense League promotes jihad and participates in the Israel hating Al-Quds Rally.

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If this development is approved, attacks like the one that occurred at a Thornhill synagogue last week could happen much more frequently, and even on a regular basis. The Muslim residential development, will over time, finish much of Thornhill, Ontario as a thriving Jewish city. Many families will leave, since Thornhill may no longer be safe for Jews.

“Thornhill Muslim community development to be appealed at OMB,” by March 22, 2018:

The Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat (ISIJ) wants permission to rezone and develop the property around the Jaffari Community Centre mosque at 9000 Bathurst St.—land they have owned for 20 years.

Dubbed the “Jaffari Village,” the initial 2014 plan proposed two 17-storey residential towers, a retail space and 61 townhouses in the low-density neighbourhood. Then, both religious tensions and concerns about density surfaced in community discussions, with more than 3,250 people signing a petition against it at the time.

Today, after 28 meetings with city staff and the Preserve Thornhill Woods Association, the final proposal now sees 60 three-storey townhouses, a six-storey seniors’ residence, an eight-storey residential building, a new secondary school, and a new park and nature trail along the East Don River.

“We just don’t want density in the neighbourhood,” said Rom Koubi, chairman of the Association.

“We have addressed each and every concern that has been on this application,” said Shafiq Ebrahim, ISIJ vice-president, who read out 14-pages of contentious items the ISIJ had received from the community and city staff. These included everything from traffic to the shape and heights of the buildings, to accessible education facilities.

“It’s gotten to a point where we think we are not making any headway with the residents’ association or local citizens,” he said.

With OMB rules set to change next month, ISIJ appealed in mid-November to ensure their proposal was considered under the same rules they initially applied within. Ebrahim said they had no other choice but to appeal to see their property become the mixed-use, inclusive development they’ve dreamed of for two decades.

“This is our property,” said Ebrahim. “We have the right to build, and we will build in accordance with the law…we are at the point where we say here’s where we’re at.”

Despite the changes made, Ebrahim says “the same old issue keeps coming up.”

“It’s too much,” said Koubi. “It’s way too big. It’s way outside the look, the feel, the height, and density of the neighbourhood…It’s way too outside the character of the neighbourhood.”

As the chairman of the Preserve Thornhill Woods Association and a 15-year-long resident in the neighbourhood, Koubi has been actively involved in conversations with the ISIJ to help “their proposal come to life.” The development is “fence to fence” with his house, and one he thinks is too dense for “a very relaxed neighbourhood.”

He admits that ISIJ has addressed some of the concerns the Association brought up, but still believes the neighbourhood can’t support the development. Koubi says there are not enough parking spots to accommodate what he expects to be the increased traffic flow to the mosque. He’s also concerned about the development’s impact on the Don River and the potential stress on public schools.

His main issue is not with the mosque, he says, which “has been around longer than the neighbourhood itself.”

“The major issue is you need to be considerate with your neighbours and your neighbourhood,” said Koubi. “You don’t want to have a tower next to your house because it doesn’t look right…There’s no where in the neighbourhood that looks like that.”

The City of Vaughan has yet to take a position on the development. In an email, local councillor Sandra Yeung Racco wrote the City has “listened and worked with residents, the developers as well as York Region and the Toronto Region Conservation Authority to review the proposed development plans to address the concerns of the community.”

Yeung Racco added that both she and City staff had provided all correspondence sent through e-mail and social media to the City’s Planning Department, and that a City staff report evaluating the development is expected in the next few weeks.

“It certainly is unusual for a council to take four years and more to make a decision in the issue when the proponent of the proposal has so significantly altered their initial plans,” said Myer Siemiatycki, a professor of politics at Ryerson University. Siemiatycki has conducted many studies on the planning issues surrounding mosques. “It seems longer and more drawn out than it should be.”

Siemiatycki said he can’t think of any historical parallels to a faith community wanting to develop the adjacent area to its place of worship, or for a development proposal being actively edited for five years and not receiving a verdict from the municipal government in that time.

The timing of the ISIJ’s appeal is significant to him because it validates the changes to the OMB’s authority to move the onus to the municipality to make decisions.

“Local councils are responsible for zoning and planning and land use…and of course city councils are elected and the OMB isn’t,” he said, adding that the ISIJ’s proposal seems beneficial to the community at large and the resistance perhaps rooted in the idea of the potential expansion of the Muslim presence in the area.

“It does look like there’s an awful lot of vacant land, kind of unsightly vacant land surrounding the mosque that is already there….The irony is, having a lot of residents be walking distance to the mosque might reduce the amount of driving and traffic to the mosque,” he added. “This could be the solution.”

Mark Flowers, ISIJ’s legal counsel, told the Star that the appeal is one way to prompt a council position, adding that Vaughan city council is expecting a large turn out on March 27 and has moved the meeting to council chambers with planned overflow rooms. There will be no decision at this meeting; it is purely administrative.

“Obviously we’d like to see some finality to the project,” said Flowers, who says that the development has been proposed in a “sensitive way,” with the townhouses being proposed adjacent to residential buildings, and the mid-rise buildings furthest away at Bathurst street.

That finality, said Flowers, would be when the OMB hearing is completed and a decision is rendered, which he doesn’t see happening till 2019. “It has been a rather contentious application,” he added. This is despite the fact the density being proposed, said Flowers, is less than that permitted in low-density neighbourhood.

In 2016, the Ontario government created new requirements for suburban development, one of which included ensuring at least 60 per cent of all new residential developments be created in already developed areas.

Ebrahim remains “cautiously optimistic.”

“The project is inclusive…I don’t understand how it cannot benefit the community,” he said. “We have the right to develop.”

 

 

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

What are the odds of the building space let to a nice polish deli?

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

I was thinking of an old style. old school, ham and bacon smokehouse. Can’t you just smell the delicious pork smoke .. wafting for miles and miles?

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
5 years ago

Don’t laugh we have such a plant in the southern Milwaukee urban area, close to our area’s Muslim population!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sQYnqrd0hs

Dagonet
Dagonet
5 years ago

Gotta wash it down with German lager.

Can we also rent the place for bah mitvahs, Christmas parties, Easter egg hunts, poker tournaments, dog shows and grand dragon KKK rallies?

F- pisslam.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago
Reply to  Dagonet

You can wash those delicious meats down with German Lagers, Czech Pilsners, India Pale Ales … and Hard Ciders. I’m thinking that greased pig races should be a featured attraction. Special Discounts for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs … we’d even clean it up to kosher standards …. Shut down the smokers …. no shellfish …. and no pork, for those special occassions.

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
5 years ago

The mudscum/mudslime actually love the smell of Bacon frying. The reason they try to get restaurants banned from cooking bacon as the smell tempts them to want to eat some.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago
Reply to  SNOWDIN

There’s only one reason that moslems don’t eat pork .. they’re afraid that it COULD be their mother.

Protest Ebrahim the Liar
Protest Ebrahim the Liar
5 years ago

And so the Islamification of Toronto and Thornhill begins.

When the Muslim community of any city grows that is when the Jihad and violence and Jew hatred begins.

We know what Muslim men do to their Jewish elderly neighbours – they brutally kill elderly Jewish women.

Silence from the Toronto Star about the horrific murders of Jewish elderly women in their own apartments. The Toronto Star put a small article at the backpage of their shitty newspaper regarding the horrific attack and brutal beating and murder of Sarah Halimi and stabbing and burning of Mirielle Knoll.

When a Muslim women was simply verbally harassed in Etobicoke it is repeatedly on the internet.

The Toronto Star is the most anti-Semitic rag in Toronto.

Ebrahim says they have right to develop and the Jewish community has the right to protest for their safety.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Poor Canada, following in the footsteps of the United Kaliphate. I predict this area will become a muslum only enclave in the years to follow.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Undoubtedly, they will get their wish. Having contacts in Toronto’s Jewish Communities, it will be a significant struggle to take on not only the Muslims but the a-kissing lot from governments of all levels. Justin Trudeau is likely clambering, claiming first dibs on digging the commemorative first hole, and the scissors to cut the ribbon upon the completion of the project.

Islam has set deep roots in the mindset of the Canadian Ruling-Class and many citizens; not all. Progressivism is a disease, a contagion with deadly consequences; a reason on why America must continue the battle against the Progressivist Democrats and others who may appear different but are Progressives of another shape or hue. The downfall of the West has been brought on by the Liberal Progressives in allegiance, abidance with Islam’s commands. Non-Liberal Jews realize this, and whether in Canada or elsewhere they must maintain the resolve to stop this Islamic take-over.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

step by step? islam will take over Canada

wall poster
wall poster
5 years ago

care to tell us their strategy?

How the left destroys society
How the left destroys society
5 years ago
Reply to  wall poster

Libtards will encourage them to come from all corners of the world, and once there, will pay them welfare while they breed like rats. And good people will watch in disgust and do nothing. It’s happening everywhere. What can one man do? The laws are skewed to protect criminals and libtards and to prosecute decent people. Have my doubts we can win at the ballot box – and we can’t win by violence if we act alone – they’ll just arrest you or kill you and a single person isn’t likely to accomplish much. Time to form very large groups, have plans for SHTF, not just for defense, but for offense as well. I believe we will eventually have to take our country back the hard way. The Muzrats spread jihad, death, and destruction thru their mosques – perhaps it’s time for churches to start forming groups for our survival.

Vlad
Vlad
5 years ago

Pucker: Your cow wants oral sex.

edD
ed
5 years ago

step by step….your goat will turn the tables on you and YOU will be on the bottom…..DOMINATED. it is written…..it is the will of mo-HAM-head.

Seaside
Seaside
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

You are spot on. Sharia Law demands women wear body bags, demands media/people not criticize islam which is called political correctness, demands muslim prayer anytime, anywhere…and on and on. And, just look at how many western European countries heed the demands of Sharia Law including Canada. Not enough westerners understand that islam is a political system and way of life that controls muslims from birth to death. And, that Sharia Law is based on the koran which are the violent words and deeds of mohammed. Once muslims colonize, practice sharia law and build a mosque that is considered a total win in the conquer column.

Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  Seaside

They are a plague that conquer and colonise just like fire ants, relentless, warring, breeding and violence.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago
Reply to  Cai

Yes .. but who in the hell give fire ants food, clothing, shelter and cash stipends?

Cai
Cai
5 years ago

Very good point…….. makes muzrats multi times more disgusting than fire ants and those who arrange the stipends etc are the ultimate traitors, without them the muzrats would not be capable of terrorising the West to the extent they are.

joc22D
joc22
5 years ago
Reply to  Seaside

If you read anything on the Bilderberg Group you will find out the Islamic take over of the west is all part of it’s tenets for the One World Government, Since Islam forces people to be compliant unlike Judaism or Christianity. It’s a perfect fit for one world religion, as the violent nature of the religion pacify it’s subjects so the selected leaders of the One World Government can have easier control of the world populace. Chapter 5 in Daniel Estulin’s book “The True Story of the Bilderburg Group” explains the plans the 80 permanent members of Bilderberg’s have set out to achieve This NEW WORLD ORDER since 1953

Seaside
Seaside
5 years ago
Reply to  joc22

I might add that islam is a violent, controlling political system that uses religion as a cover. Sharia Law keeps muslims under control with violent threats if not death. Islam is pure evil and elitist globalists, corrupt politicians are complicit in destroying western civilization.

Dagonet
Dagonet
5 years ago

Four years to approve the proposal, just come right out and say it. You’re F-ing sick and tired of pisslam destroying everything and turning it to S-. What pisslamist would ever be offended by this when it simply isn’t true?

F- pisslam.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

This is ontario, which has a higher debt load than california, any muslim money will definitely be the deciding factor in the approval of this project. Those disapproving of the islamification of Canada or anywhere else will have to become politically active. The status quo in the political world is owned by muslims.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Even as bad as Canada is getting it still doesn’t have any city that compares to the islamic pig’s anus that is Dearbornistan, Michigan.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

The ontario liberals are working on it.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Have you had any muslum terrorist attacks in Canada that actually killed people?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

Only family members.

Mohammad Shafia, right, Tooba Yahya, center, and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia, left, are escorted into the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Thursday, Jan. 26.

Mohammad Shafia, right, Tooba Yahya, center, and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia, left, are escorted into the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Thursday, Jan. 26. (FRANK GUNN/AP)

Three members of an immigrant Afghan family were found guilty of first-degree murder on Sunday in what is thought to be Canada’s first “honor killing” trial.

Mohammad Shafia, 58, and his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya were convicted, along with their 21-year-old son Hamed, of drowning their three daughters and Shafia’s first wife, according to The Associated Press.

They reportedly stashed the dead bodies in the family car, which they pushed into a canal near Kingston, Ontario to make the deaths look like an accident, jurors at the Ontario court ruled.

The bodies of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Shafia’s first wife Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, were found in the submerged car on June 30, 2009.

Wiretaps played during the trial caught Shafia on tape calling his daughters “filthy” and “whores” for “betraying” his family by dating boys and wearing revealing clothing.

Reject the Application
Reject the Application
5 years ago

While non-Muslims live in democracies, most Muslims in the same countries inhabit theocratic enclaves where they are expected to tread a narrow path – or suffer the consequences.

Anti-Semitic incitement by Muslim religious leaders has been normalized in the West and in the Muslim world.

The Toronto Star had a column with the picture of Mohamed Merah the Muslim monster that shot the Rabbi and his two sons, Aryeh 6 and Gabriel 3 and he put his gun against the temple of 8 year old Miriam Monsonego and shot her – the rag the Toronto Star attributed to the murders of these children to the fact that Merah was unemployed.

The brother of Mohamed Merah who committed the Toulouse massacre, spoke of this culture of hatred after Merah’s atrocities. His Arab mother always said “We the Arabs, we were born to hate Jews.”

The Jewish community and elderly Jewish women and children are the first target to suffer the consequences when the Muslim population of any suburb grows.

Ebrahim said “The project is inclusive…I don’t understand how it cannot benefit the community,” he said. “We have the right to develop.”

Nothing about Muslim culture is inclusive and we know that from the massacres of Jews which have occurred in France a modern country overcome with Muslims. Muslims target, harass and murder anyone who isn’t Muslim.

Stop the application, by Shafiq Ebrahim.

vicky
vicky
5 years ago

molums would do anything to promote themselves and their twisted ideology and event resort to converting a jew to muslumism. to win points with their mohamadan, you know. poor Canada you poor suckers take in every man and his dog into your country!! first these refos act nice then stab yo slowly in the back while talking to you and you know what they’re doing. :((((

Lynn D
Lynn D
5 years ago

We will be inclusive…… Ha ha ha ha TAQIYYA TAQIYYA TAQIYYA

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

The muslums can include me out!

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

do you think group of people living together based on genes similarity is inclusive ?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Do you kiss your lady boy w/those lips?

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

YOU can bet this is being done on PURPOSE. DEMONS have overtaken your government. It’s not safe anywhere anymore.

They have brought the wild man, the Negro, the Migrant and trying to make the West into a TURD world nation. You have dangerously deluded people ruling you.

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
5 years ago

This is a travesty and should not be allowed to take place. To close for the mudscum/mudslime to vandal and terrorize. Where are the protests.

Tearlag
Tearlag
5 years ago
Reply to  SNOWDIN

The muzzscum will move in, and to start things off, they’ll blast their vile “call to prayer” on loudspeakers. Then the real harassment/threats will start. The Jewish residents will have to sell their homes–to muzzrats at no doubt a lower price–and leave. That’s the plan. Inclusive! What a load! It’s conquering through infestation.

Take the minorities 2A away!
Take the minorities 2A away!
5 years ago

Let’s play cowboys and Muzrats and get this bull shi+ over with.
This is sickening.
Every effin’ day it’s one libtard insult after another all effin’ day long!

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago

why on earth those people tend to group together based on genes similarity ????

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago

Why on earth are ALL moslem males homosexuals?

Daniel Aaron Vásquez
Daniel Aaron Vásquez
5 years ago

I wish that was true because they reproduce themselves like rodents…

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
5 years ago

Did you ever see the moslem command for queers? If two are caught, as those of Lut (Sodom) they are to be put to death, unless they are married. So, a moslem male gets married … then it’s butt-ram time at the old corral. It is true … Just part and parcel of bein’ a moslem.

Daniel Aaron Vásquez
Daniel Aaron Vásquez
5 years ago

all I know about that “gonnef yikhes” (lineage of thieves) is that they are evil to the core and hypocritical ad nauseam, I’ve been told that many young muslims do engage in same sex activities with non muslims and that they demand money AFTERWARDS….OR ELSE! They claim that this is allowed by their so-called religion (an evil, demonic bloodthirsty cult) if they are poor and have to help their poverty stricken families, (mir kumm’n di treren, i.e. I feel like crying on account of their plight!) although that kind of boys walk around in Chevignon coats, designer jeans, Nikes, etc. .
Whatever the case may be, I wish they wouldn’t be able to reproduce themselves..
Best regards

deepkimchi
deepkimchi
5 years ago

Here’s hoping Trudeau goes down in history as a mere flash-in-the-pan freedom hating buffoon and not the megalomaniacal mass murderous monster who brought Canada to her knees.

ninetyninepct
ninetyninepct
5 years ago
Reply to  deepkimchi

One and gone.

byronmullet
byronmullet
5 years ago

True or false, Islam is an institutionalized human rights violation? If true, why does Canada roll out the red carpet for Muslim ideology which tells them to hate and kill Jews and non-muslims and take over their communities on the way to taking over the world? Note, I am not criticizing Islam on the basis of its being a religion! True or false, an institutionalized human rights violation does not qualify to be a religion? If true, mosques do not qualify for tax deductions for a religion, nor do peaceful civilized communities have to knuckle under to progressives who say resistance to human rights violators and enablers is hate speech.

L-Dan
L-Dan
5 years ago

A new suburban turban community where the living becomes uneasy. It won’t take long for this hand grenade to blow up in Trudeau’s face.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

This is another way of saying…Jews get the Fk out of Canada, it’s now under sharia control.

ninetyninepct
ninetyninepct
5 years ago

The start of a Muslim enclave, establishing a Muslim city. So much for yet another Liberal lie about diversity. Similar to NE Calgary where almost all you see are peoplekind wobbling around in body-bags.

By the way, when these peoplekind claim to be Muslim, how are Canadians supposed to tell? By what they wear? Sorry, anyone can wear a burka or a face mask.

marble granite
marble granite
5 years ago

The earth’s land area is being treated as a Go game board.

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
5 years ago

Litter the grounds with remains of pig carcasses to christen the property. Forgot that would be considered a hate crime against the mudscum/mudslime.

Carol
Carol
5 years ago

If they allow this development, they will be a party to murder of the Jewish residents. They can use statistics to defend keeping it for the Jewish community.

Peter WF
Peter WF
5 years ago

Simply not diverse enough.

rickyoo
rickyoo
5 years ago

This is no different to the Muslims that bought the Golders Green Hippodrome and are now turning it into a ‘cultural center’ slap bang in the middle of a majority Jewish neighborhood. The councils, the government are so terrified of upsetting these barbarians and being called racist or Isamophobic that they just give in.

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