“We have more communication, but we also have more confrontation,” he said. “Even as we exclaim about growing connectivity, we seem to experience greater disconnection.”
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of some 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, told a packed audience that society must strive to be more “pluralist” and “cosmopolitan,” meaning people should actively seek out difference and diversity and learn from it.
He also touched on his time at Harvard, where he had been a 20-year-old junior and a member of the university soccer team when he succeeded his grandfather to become imam in 1957. And he highlighted the work his international development organization, the Aga Khan Development Network, does to address poverty, health care and education in developing countries.
Source: Muslim leader calls for more understanding among cultures – San Francisco Chronicle
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