The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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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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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.
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