Graeme Morton, Calgary Herald | Sunday, June 28, 2009
If you listen to a steady diet of radio talk shows or browse online blogs, some days you’d swear complaining, not hockey, is Canada’s national pastime.
To those who find faults, both large and small, in the True North Strong and Free, Samiullah Sadet would quietly disagree.
“I have been in many places, Asia, Europe, the Middle East . . . and this is the best country in the world,” says Sadet in the living room of his family’s spotless northeast Calgary home.
Canada is the heaven of the world.”
Samiullah, or Sammy as he’s known, is the oldest of six brothers and sisters who came to Calgary in 1999 from Afghanistan after their parents were killed during the ongoing fighting that continues to grip that nation. At the time, they were between eight and 17 years old, moving halfway around the world to a strange new environment.
The six Sadet siblings were given guidance and support by the Dhanani family and the city’s Ismaili Muslim community and went through the natural period of adjustment all immigrants go through.
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Ismailimail 
Very touching indeed!
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