This is painful stuff. It seeks understanding and a path forward, but not judgement. Sheema Khan names Islamaphobia as one of the challenges that we  must address, and this fact is missed by most posters. Frightened people are often abusive people, and almost everyone, it seems, is afraid.

A man from Edmonton was just killed fighting ISIS, so they say. It's terribly sad. His family will no doubt have trouble retrieving his body, and they ask our government for help. Certainly, if his body is in someone's hands, then our government should ask for "that someone's" help. But that is it. I believe so strongly that we should not encourage anyone, in any way, to help "fight ISIS" except through the foreign policy of Canada and the Canadian Forces, just as the Chief of the Defence Staff has said. We don't need more Canadians heading off to fight any Muslims anywhere. It's hate weaved with despair. How is it heard by young Canadians who are Muslim?

It's a long arc. Start with relationship.