“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.”

They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

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

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.

There 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.

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.

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

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.

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

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.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.

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.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.

We must put communities of color at the forefront of our COVID-19 recovery plan.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

You have the right to vote. You have the right to share your voice. you have the opportunity to shape the future of your community.

We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

Without community, there is no liberation.

The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.