If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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