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: While going through the passport check after returning home from a trip, she said, she was pulled aside by a border services agent and questioned about her religion and why she frequently travels outside the country, according to CBC. At one point, Behbahani said, the agent asked her: "How Canadian do you really feel " "It made me stop and wonder, 'Why would you ask me that Would you ask someone without a headscarf that question '" she said. The 31-year-old lecturer at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., was born in Iran and moved to Canada when she was 13. The majority of young Muslims in Canada feel Muslim first and Canadian second, an Environics Institutesurveyreleased Wednesday suggests. Among young respondents who said their citizenship and their faith were important parts of their identity, 61 per cent said being Muslim was the most important part of their identity and six per cent said being Canadian was the most important. Some experts suggest that because young Muslim Canadians feel a strong societal pressure to have to answer for violence perpetrated by extremists in the name of Islam and are struggling to reclaim their Muslim identity for themselves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.