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.
AGA KHAN IVThe Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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