Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
AGA KHAN IVThere appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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