"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> |