I am a Karen Armstrong fan; however, on this book she was too politically correct. She compresses the history of Islam avoiding to share all the blood spilled and all the lives shattered by this senseless and furious fanatics. Ms. Armstrong does not mention their lack of interest for a better World and their sole aim of one Islamic World. The book is a so-so introduction to Islamic History but it is not a definitive source.

She fails to mention that Islam like all religions nurture themselves out of people ignorance. She fail to mention that even when Islam speaks about a unique direct relation with God it also co-exist with the Shariah Law and all the opinions of a sea of illiterate people usually called Imams and Ayatollahs that only care as the Catholic Pope and all fundamentalist pastors and reverends do care for their personal beliefs.

As Ms. Armstrong basically said in her book History of God, humankind has no need for the Biblical God that does not answer to prayers, that does not care for human misery or for a God that permits the horrors of life. Islam is the same BS and promotes violence against non Muslims. We do not need this type of trash in our World!