Karen
Armstrong, billed on the jacket as “one of the world’s foremost
scholars on religious affairs,” comments on everything from the
Christian Crusades, the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the
taking of hostages by Ayatollah Khomeini and his issuance of a fatwah on author Salman Rushdie, and Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam to the Taliban in her book Islam: A Short History.
It is important to note that the book was published prior to the
destruction that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001.
Armstrong’s observations, though often flawed because of her
rose-colored view of Islam’s mysticism, accurately reveal the impending
nightmare of the Taliban. She harshly condemns the Taliban as
fundamentalist and contrary to the Qur’an.http://www.journeytomecca.co.uk/
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