There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
AGA KHAN IVThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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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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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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