Prime Minister Paul Martin meets the crowd before his speech during the 400th anniversary of the compilation of the Sikh scripture. (CP /Francois Roy)
MONTREAL (CP) - Religious conflicts are one of the biggest challenges facing the international community, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Sunday as he prepared to head to New York City to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
"You can sit down to discuss economics, you can discuss politics and in fact, there is normally a rational background that one can approach logically," Martin told a banquet marking an interfaith conference hosted by McGill University.
"But when religious differences are allowed to keep us apart, there is no logical way to deal with it."
Over 200 academics from Canada, India and the United States gathered at the conference to mark the 400th anniversary of the Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib and to hear experts on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism speak on universality and justice.
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