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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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