Karen Armstrong: “Islam is a religion of tolerance”

January 22, 2002

At such a tender age, 17 years, Karen Armstrong made a huge decision in her life: to become a nun. “I wanted to find God and joined the Society of the Holy Child Jesus,” she told TEMPO. However, at the convent, Armstrong confessed that she didn’t find what she’d been looking for. “I was far too young at 17 to make the kind of commitment that the religious life requires, and it became clear to me that I was not g

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