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==Views==
==Views==
*On Islam and its violence:
*On Islam and its violence:
"...there is nothing aggressively oriental or anti-Western about it."
"...there is nothing aggressively oriental or anti-Western about it."
"[[Mohammad]] would be appalled if he knew that September 11th was done in the name of Islam."
"[[Mohammad]] would be appalled if he knew that September 11th was done in the name of Islam."
“these acts may be committed by people who call themselves Muslims, but they violate essential Islamic principles."
“these acts may be committed by people who call themselves Muslims, but they violate essential Islamic principles."
"The early conquests in Persia and Byzantium after the Prophet's death were inspired by political rather than religious aspirations."
"The early conquests in Persia and Byzantium after the Prophet's death were inspired by political rather than religious aspirations."
"I don't think people sit at home and read the Qur'an and say, yes, I must go and bomb Israel."
"I don't think people sit at home and read the Qur'an and say, yes, I must go and bomb Israel."
*Israel: "The problem with Israel now is that it cannot believe that it is not 1939 any more; the Israeli people are emotionally stuck in the horrors of the Nazi era."
*Israel:
"The problem with Israel now is that it cannot believe that it is not 1939 any more; the Israeli people are emotionally stuck in the horrors of the Nazi era."
"The West has to share a responsibility for what is happening in the Middle East. If it had not persecuted the Jews, there would not have been the need for the creation of the State of Israel."
"The West has to share a responsibility for what is happening in the Middle East. If it had not persecuted the Jews, there would not have been the need for the creation of the State of Israel."
"Muslims should try to use the media; they have got to learn to lobby like the Jews, and they have got to have a Muslim lobby...Have a march down the street at Ground Zero in New York, call it 'Muslims against Terror'. They need to learn how to manage the media and how to conduct themselves in the media."
"Muslims should try to use the media; they have got to learn to lobby like the Jews, and they have got to have a Muslim lobby...Have a march down the street at Ground Zero in New York, call it 'Muslims against Terror'. They need to learn how to manage the media and how to conduct themselves in the media."
On 911:
On the reception of her book "Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet" which is very popular among Muslims and liberals: "It is very nice that people think that the book was written by a Muslim..."
*On 911:
"We were posing as a tolerant society, yet passing judgment from a position of extremes and irrationality." But as is typical with liberals, she is antagonistic toward historical Christianity, while promoting Islam.
"We were posing as a tolerant society, yet passing judgment from a position of extremes and irrationality." But as is typical with liberals, she is antagonistic toward historical Christianity, while promoting Islam.
*On the Bible:
*On the Bible:
We can misunderstand it. We can use it to create mayhem because of our own horrible sort of murderous tendencies. And there are no clear answers, no clear theology in the Bible.
We can misunderstand it. We can use it to create mayhem because of our own horrible sort of murderous tendencies. And there are no clear answers, no clear theology in the Bible.
*On the Qur'an]]:
*On the Qur'an]]:
"The Qur'an strictly forbids any coercion in religion and regards all rightly guided religion as coming from God; and despite the western belief to the contrary, Muslims did not impose their faith by the sword."
"The Qur'an strictly forbids any coercion in religion and regards all rightly guided religion as coming from God; and despite the western belief to the contrary, Muslims did not impose their faith by the sword."
"The Qur’an prohibits aggressive warfare, permits war only in self-defence and insists that the true Islamic values are peace, reconciliation and forgiveness.”
"The Qur’an prohibits aggressive warfare, permits war only in self-defence and insists that the true Islamic values are peace, reconciliation and forgiveness.”
"The bedrock message of the Qur'an is not a doctrine but a summons to build a just and decent society where there is a fair distribution of wealth and vulnerable people are treated with absolute respect."
"The bedrock message of the Qur'an is not a doctrine but a summons to build a just and decent society where there is a fair distribution of wealth and vulnerable people are treated with absolute respect."
*On Christianity versus Islam in history:
*On Christianity versus Islam in history:
"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
*On Roman Catholicism:
*On Roman Catholicism:
"Jesus would be horrified by the practices of the church today. I would love to show him around the Vatican, when Christians cannot even share a church together."
"Jesus would be horrified by the practices of the church today. I would love to show him around the Vatican, when Christians cannot even share a church together."
On the [[Crusades]]:
On the [[Crusades]]:
"Islam was everything that the West thought it was not, and it was at the time of the Crusades that the idea that Islam was essentially a violent religion took hold in the West. "Europe was projecting anxiety about its own behaviour onto Islam, and it did the same thing too with the Jewish people."<ref>[http://www.islamfortoday.com/karenarmstrong02.htm ''Islam and the West,''] interview by Omayma Abdel-Latif for Islam for today.</ref><ref>http://www.islamamerica.org/ArticleLibrary/tabid/55/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13/Default.aspx</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_armstrong.html</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/transcript1.html?print</ref> <ref>guardian.co.uk, ''Do unto others'' Friday 14 November 2008</ref>
"Islam was everything that the West thought it was not, and it was at the time of the Crusades that the idea that Islam was essentially a violent religion took hold in the West. "Europe was projecting anxiety about its own behaviour onto Islam, and it did the same thing too with the Jewish people."<ref>[http://www.islamfortoday.com/karenarmstrong02.htm ''Islam and the West,''] interview by Omayma Abdel-Latif for Islam for today.</ref><ref>http://www.islamamerica.org/ArticleLibrary/tabid/55/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13/Default.aspx</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_armstrong.html</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/transcript1.html?print</ref> <ref>guardian.co.uk, ''Do unto others'' Friday 14 November 2008</ref>