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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

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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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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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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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