Canada anti-Muslim attack: ?It could have been any one of us?

But on Sunday, as they waited to cross a street in London, Ontario, they were run down by a driver police say was motivated by anti-Muslim hate.For members of Muslim communities across the country, the Islamophobic attack that killed four people, including a teenage girl, and seriously injured a nine-year-old boy, harkens back to painful memories of a deadly assault on a Quebec mosque more than four years ago.It is also a sign that something is terribly wrong.“The sentiment that I’m hearing across the board, and I think everybody is feeling, [is] that it could have been any one of us,” Selma Tobah, a 31-year-old graduate student at Western University who has lived in London for more than 10 years, told Al Jazeera.“They were just out on an evening walk. There’s sadness,” said Yusuf Faqiri, a spokesman for the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), a national advocacy group, about the deadly attack in London.A vigil will be held in the city on Tuesday evening to honour the family, while people are also raising funds online to support the nine-year-old boy who was injured.“This tragedy brings back the horrible memories of what happened in Quebec, which was only four and a half years ago,” Faqiri told Al Jazeera. We need to call it for what it is: this was a terrorist act, this was an Islamophobic act.”People gather at a makeshift memorial after an anti-Muslim hate crime killed four people in London, Ontario [Carlos Osorio/Reuters]Nawaz Tahir, a lawyer and Muslim community leader in London, said, “The horror that has visited this family, the Canadian Muslim community, and Canada at large … is unfathomable.”“These were innocent human beings who were killed simply because they’re Muslim,” Tahir told reporters during a news conference on Monday.