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   and so it begins..   
      
      
   Canadian Muslims Demand Help For Kids Battling ‘Islamophobia’   
      
      
   Muslim leaders in Canada’s steel capital of Hamilton, Ontario say some kind   
   of help is urgently needed for children under the age of 10 years who are   
   allegedly subject to raging “Islamophobia,” the CBC reports.   
      
   “Young children are finding it difficult in these kinds of instances,”   
   said Affaf Ahtisham, secretary of the Muslim Association of Hamilton.   
   “They’re questioning, ‘Can this happen to me? Why is this happening to   
   us?’ for example.”   
      
   What “instances” are they referring to? Well according to a list provided   
   by the CBC, many of the incidents of “Islamophobia” are neither relevant   
   to children nor the city of Hamilton.   
      
   These include:   
      
   •The Quebec City mosque shooting in January;   
   •President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven scheduled   
   countries, inaccurately deemed a “Muslim ban” by most Canadian media;   
   •An anti-Muslim rally in Toronto on Feb. 17 where some protesters were   
   almost charged with a hate crime;   
   •A Feb. 14 attack on a Muslim doctor at Hamilton’s St. Joseph’s   
   Healthcare Centre.   
   •An arson attempt on Hamilton’s Ibrahim Jame Mosque on Sept. 14, 2016.   
   •A beating of teenager on Nov. 30, 2016  that left him with a fractured   
   skull.   
      
   Though few of these episodes had a direct effect on local Muslims and none   
   involved children under the age of 10, “The elementary school kids are the   
   ones who are most affected,” insists Kamran Bhatti, a Muslim community   
   activist. “The older kids    
   kind of understand. They’re like, ‘you know we’ve been around here   
   awhile,  we’ve been victims of racism, we’ve been victims of this type of   
   xenophobia,’ but they don’t feel like anyone is going to come and shoot   
   them.   
      
   “Some of these kids are internalizing it and they’re saying, well it this   
   is happening to ordinary Muslims then what about me,” he claimed.   
      
   Local imam, Sayed Tora, leader of the Hamilton Downtown Mosque, said the   
   Quebec City tragedy had a particular affect on his 12-year-old daughter.   
      
   “The only thing that she would say was that she can’t believe that this is   
   happening here [in Canada],” he told CBC News.   
      
   Another Hamilton imam says it’s the long-term “fear and anxiety” that   
   children are said to experience that you have to consider.   
      
   “Young people are vulnerable and in a state of developing their   
   perceptions,” said  Ayman Al-Taher, who apparently “always” apprehends   
   “a shift” in Muslims between the ages of four and 10 following any   
   incident of “Islamophobia.”   
      
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