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The cultural contexts in which over one billion Muslims have been reared and shaped are simply not understood in much of the world. Even the most basic elements of 1400 years of Islamic civilization are absent from the curricula in most of the world's schools. The subject is just not on the world's educational radar screen. And the result is an enormous vacuum
SPEECH BY HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN AT THE COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION CONFERENCE - 1996-10-17
Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
Mr Chairman, My Lords, distinguished guests, members of the CommonwealthPress Union, Ladies and Gentlemen .
It is an enormous pleasure for me to join you today. I only wish I could
have attended all of your sessions, for your program touches on many
subjects which are of great interest to me - and your speakers have included
an impressive array of distinguished personalities .
In fact, as I looked at the long list of those who have already come to this
podium, I wondered whether you would have any capacity left to absorb
whatever I might say!
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