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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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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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We 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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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 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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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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 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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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 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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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