Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.

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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.

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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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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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Deprived Improve Mean Motivation
These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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Basis Daily Imperatives More Must Think Toward
Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.

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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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Doubt Pluralist Successful Today
Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.

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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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Continous Lain Marvel Scientific Window
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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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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Big Building Cultural Development Economic Single Syndrome Together Trying
This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.

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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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Animosities Confident Generously
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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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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Balance Contradiction
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.

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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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Fold Holy Humility Prophet Religious Revealed
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

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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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Make
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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Amongst Gifted Many Qualities
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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Another Apply Identical One Religious Set Take
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Motivation
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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Appear Degradation Momentum Relation Towards
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.

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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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Greatest Probably Religious
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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