Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
AGA KHAN IVThese are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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