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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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