By Sameer Hirjee: The truest measure of people’s loyalty is not how people react at times of joy, but it is rather how they react at times of need and hardship. On Tuesday, May. 8, a nine year old Ismaili by the name of Amsal Dukha was kidnapped. Dukha was taken after school by a family friend, Kismat Momin, who told Dukha that his parents had asked her to pick him up. They had a normal day; Dukha did not notice that anything was out of the ordinary. They went to Momin’s house, which was only a few buildings away from Dukha’s. They drove around together, talked, had dinner, and even went bowling. Everything seemed normal for Dukha; because he didn’t know that the person he was bowling with was a criminal.
As expected, his parents were going bonkers about their missing child, so they called the police and asked for volunteers to help look for Dukha. Dukha’s caring parents also sought help from a few Ismaili members, who later spread the word. Before they knew it, there were more than 60 policemen and 150 volunteers (mainly Ismailis) sacrificing time from their own day going door-to-door searching for Dukha. The word had also spread through social media that there was a missing Ismaili child.
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