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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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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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 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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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