Coming Soon to Thorhnill (North of Toronto): A Way to Warehouse the Burgeoning Community of Khomeinists

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Residents of a Thornhill community are speaking out over a proposal to construct two residential highrise buildings in a low-density neighbourhood.

The proposed condos would be built at the Jaffari Community Centre, at 9000 Bathurst Street, and would contain 377 units.

Residents who live in the Thornhill Woods neighbourhood, located right beside the community centre, say they don’t want the area to become overcrowded.

The Jaffari Centre has submitted a proposal to turn its 30-acre property into a high-density Muslim community which would include the highrise buildings as well as 61 townhouses.

Residents opposed to the plan have started an online petition which had garnered over 2,500 signatures by Monday evening.

Shabbir Jeraj, president of the Jaffari Centre, told CityNews this kind of expansion is going on everywhere in the area.

“As far as we are concerned this is very consistent with all the development that’s going on around us, especially north of Rutherford and Bathurst,” he said.

Neighbourhood residents say they are also concerned because some of the proposed housing will be subsidized, which they believe may decrease their property value.

"Islamophobes."

FYI, the Jaffari Centre is a Shia mosque whose imam, Seyed Muhammad Rivzi, has had a long and illustrious career at the forefront of Zion-loathing in these parts. But, as Ontario's Attorney General has made crystal clear, there's little point objecting to the Khomeinist type of hate.

Update: From a 2012 Friends of Simon Wiesenthal media release:

The YRP [York Regional Police] report, which details discrepancies in witness testimony regarding who wrote and vetted the curriculum content, ultimately found the school principal, Masuma Jessa and Imam Syed Mohammed Rizvi, spiritual leader of the ISIJ, responsible for including the antisemitic content in the educational syllabus.  

The two textbooks containing the antisemitic passages include one published by the Al Balagh Foundation in Iran, while the book which likens "the Jews and the Nazis" was published by the Mostazafan Foundation of New York, which the U.S. alleges was a front organization for the Iranian government. FSWC remains tremendously concerned about the creeping influence of the Iranian government in Canadian society and, in particular, its ongoing promotion of anti-Jewish hate.

What was that I was saying earlier today about certain types of hate speech being acceptable?