There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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