Haris Celic, 23, sales

Celic was born to Bosnian immigrant parents and has lived his whole life in Etobicoke. An avid soccer fan, he works in the sales department at Coca-Cola.

What’s your favourite way to spend a Saturday afternoon in the city?

Checking out different venues from Mississauga to downtown Toronto, be it a shisha lounge — which is my go-to place on a Saturday night — a coffee shop, the aquarium, the ROM, bowling, billiards, or a game of pickup soccer.

Have you ever faced discrimination?

I have never been on the receiving end of discrimination because I am Muslim. The people I have seen being discriminated against, usually it’s because of their ethnicity. It’s just racism at its finest. Just because I’m white, they just assume that “this guy’s one of us.” The ethnic background makes a huge difference.

How do you deal with people’s negative attitudes around your faith?

Usually people are surprised when they notice I am white and Muslim. The first question I get is “but how?” and I have to politely explain that you can chose to be Muslim and that Arabs aren’t the only Muslims in the world. What do you think non-Muslim Torontonians need to know about Muslims? That we are the same as everyone else. The God the Muslims believe in is the same as the Jews and Christians, Muslims just believe another prophet came and built upon their books.