Having read Ms.Armstrong's Buddha, I had high hope for her book on Islam, the most controversial and hated religion in the world. But I have to say it only brings disappointment. Actually while I was reading her Buddha, I was able to vaguely sensed her undue eulogy for Muhammad--she put Muhammad's name along with the Buddha and Jesus Christ as enlightened beings. As a famous scholar, her whitewashing of Islam's bloody history makes no sense to me. The only reason I can guess is that she is either afraid of attacks by the true Muslims(who strictly follow the example of Muhammad) as it happened to many upright people who dared to openly criticise that barbarous cult, or is fooled by some Islamic apologists so as to choose to ignore so many historical facts. Otherwise, I cannot find any satisfactory reason for her treatment of those historical issues.