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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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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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 is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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