The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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 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 Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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