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.
AGA KHAN IVIslam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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.
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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 Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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.
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