It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
AGA KHAN IVCanada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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