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Sheldon Ali and Naseer Muhammad

Syed Ayden Hussain: Repeated incidents have led Ali to believe that his son has been targeted because of his religion and ethnic background. "My son name is Muslim, according to CTV. We are Muslim. Sheldon Ali says his son, Naseer Muhammad, was held up before flying for the first time when he was only 10 weeks old. "We know it is going to happen every time," said Ali. So it leaves me to believe this is a form of racial profiling," he said. Zamir Khan son, Sebastian, was only six weeks old when he faced similar treatment before boarding a flight. Likewise, Syed Ayden Hussain was only 19-months old when he and his father, also named Syed, were held by border agents during a trip to the United States, only to be later released with no explanation. "We had to submit our fingerprints ... they did retinal scans and took pictures of us," said his father, Syed Hussain. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.