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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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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 appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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