SMC No. 1/2014 etc 29 exuberance, they tend to forget that the message of all faiths is common and for the benefit of the entire humanity. 35. As Voltaire aptly stated in his ‘Treatise on Tolerance’ (1763): “O different worshippers of a peaceful God! If you have a cruel heart, if, while you adore he whose whole law consists of these few words, ‘Love God and your neighbor,’ you have burdened that pure and holy law with false and unintelligible disputes, if you havelighted the flames of discord sometimes for a new word, and sometimes for a single letter of the alphabet; if you have attached eternal punishment to the omission of a few words, or of certain ceremonies which other people cannot comprehend, I must say to you with tears of compassion for mankind: ‘Transport yourselves with me to the day on which all men will be judged and on which God will do unto each according to his works.’ 36. The spirit of pluralism reflected in the Holy Quran constantly points out that Muhammad (PBUH) had not come to cancel the older religions, to contradict their Prophets or to start a new faith. To the contrary, His message is the same as that of Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon or Jesus. The cherished goal of creating a more pluralistic society where fundamental rights are respected would continue to elude us unless we realize that we are living in a world of globalized interdependence, a world of interconnectivity, of cyber space, of shrunken distances, of cross border migration, and a world of rapidly changing cultural identities. We are all members of one race of humans with common challenges, and we cannot confront these challenges without forging a common alliance. This paradigm shift in the world around us can be achieved at the international and domestic levels