Karen Armstrong Summary

The author Karen Armstrong shares a brief explanation on why the crusaders are to blame for the various misperceptions in the Muslim religion including their reason behind the unjust violence. Armstrong also mentioned how the Muslim cared little for the crusades until a feud was created between the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Unlike the Muslim who were misunderstood to be violent but the Ottoman Empire as said in this chapter viewed as a weak and defenseless empire. Moreover, she also uses those reflections of the Muslim's history in the modern eras such as War World I and War World II to emphasizes one of the reasons behind them were because of the feud between Europe and Ottoman empire. As a result of so many centuries, it has its benefits because the Islamic tradition, practice, and history expand throughout the west even the crusades didn't want to. Within its expansion, it eventually reached the United States improve the term crusades to be "de-Catholicized" as said in the third paragraph. All in all, she summarizes why the Muslims experiences such aggressiveness towards the west and as well for the crusaders. I also did my fair share of research on Karen Armstrong and she is she known for her unbiased novels based on religion. Although I learned from this chapter although her background of not a Muslim but a roman catholic nun still manages to compare her personal view on religions within her interpretations she supports them with reliable facts and history to prove her opinion. …show more content…
Therefore, this war between the two was just and falls under the just war because it's considered the principles of the just war theory. Overall, I would refer to this chapter for future classes because the chapter was narrow and