U of A grads urged to spread Canada’s multicultural success story
By Keith Gerein, Edmonton JournalJune 10, 2009
The spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims stood before a crowd of University of Alberta graduates on Tuesday and implored them to use their education to spread Canada’s success as a multicultural society.
The world is suffering through a “deficit” of ethical conduct and respect for pluralism, and educated people are badly needed to guide humanity on the right path, the Aga Khan told a packed Jubilee Auditorium.
“A pluralistic attitude is not something with which people are born –an instinctive fear of what is different is perhaps a more common human trait,”he said.
“But such fear is a condition that can be transcended, and that is why teaching about pluralism is such an important objective at every educational level.”
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I am so grateful that the Shiite Ismaili Muslim leader, the Aga Khan, was honored at the University of Alberta, my alma mater. His appearance and speech does much to help dispel the negative stereotypes of Muslims, in my view. – J. Collins Meek, Ph.D.
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