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.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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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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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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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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