The Aga Khan delivered the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture at Harvard University yesterday. He has been a strong proponent of pluralism in the world and has devoted billions of dollars in resources from the Aka Khan Development Network to enhancing education, health care , culture, and economic development in the world’s poorest countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The full text is here, but I offer a pertinent excerpt, with lessons about an increasingly divisive level of political debate in the US and elsewhere:
Source: Not Running a Hospital: Listen to people you don’t like!
Earlier from Paul Levy:
- Tolerance as a religious imperative – Eid Mubarak (10/12/2007)
- Salgirah Mubarak! From Paul Levy (12/13/2007)
- A quick trip to Cairo, and beyond, from Paul Levy (1/26/2008)
- Paul Levy: Bike4Life in the Atlas Mountains (1/5/2011)
- Paul Levy: Lessons from the Aga Khan in Canada (3/4/2014)
- Paul Levy: Extremist Buddhists? Impossible! (5/13/2014)
- Synopsis by Paul Levy of Ali Asani’s lecture at Harvard (10/4/2014)
- Listen to people you don’t like! | Paul Levy (11/13/2015)
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