The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
AGA KHAN IVThere 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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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 proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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