Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
AGA KHAN IVWe cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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 Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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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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