Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
AGA KHAN IVThat is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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 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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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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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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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