Daily Archives: January 17, 2015

Karen Armstrong on Islamophobes: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps” By :- Michael Schulson

Karen Armstrong has written histories of Buddhism and Islam. She has written a history of myth. She has written a history of God. Born in Britain, Armstrong studied English at xbrief detour toward hard-line atheism. During that period, she produced writing that, as she later described it, “tended to the Dawkinsesque.” Since then, Armstrong has emerged as one of the …

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