If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVCanada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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