The radicalization of our nation’s colleges and universities continues apace. Hard-left, antisemitic propaganda has now been institutionalized in academia. The ugliest rhetoric is sanctioned under the guise of “free speech,” while courageous voices for freedom are blacklisted. My colleagues and I are banned from speaking, for the most part. And in the rare instance where we are invited, violent and vicious pandemonium ensues. Robert Spencer’s talk at the University at Buffalo, Milo at Berkeley or mine at Brooklyn College best demonstrate what we face. And yet, Linda Sarsour, a pro-jihad terror activist and vicious anti-Semite is invited to give the keynote commencement address at CUNY (which we are protesting on May 25th here).
Professor Jonathan Brown is a notorious Jew-hater with a long history of anti-Semitic agitation. His wife is the daughter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian.
“Georgetown professor Jonathan Brown openly rallies for ‘religious discrimination’ against Jews,” Canary Mission, May 18, 2017:
Jonathan Brown [Jonathan A.C. Brown] has demonized Israeli Jews and Judaism. He has implied that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could be solved if only “Jews in Israel” were told that “they are not allowed to take stuff that doesn’t belong to them.”
In February of 2017, Brown found himself embroiled in controversy after he was accused of supporting non-consensual sex and slavery in early Islam. The incident is detailed later in this profile.
Brown has endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement’s attacks on Israel, made under the guise of support for “human rights.”
Brown is a tenured Associate Professor of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University (Georgetown). He is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (SFS). Brown is also the Director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (CMCU) within the SFS. The CMCU is known for its links to the Saudi government.
Brown is son-in-law to Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida (USF) professor, who was revealed in 2006 to be a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization. The United States government deported Al-Arian to Turkey in 2015. Brown’s wife is Al-Jazeera senior producer Laila Al-Arian.
Demonizing Israeli Jews
On February 26, 2015 — at a multi-denominational symposium hosted by the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) titled: “Religious Politics in the Middle East: The Religious Dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — Brown said: “The problem is that the Israeli political creature, the Israeli political establishment, has not told Jews in Israel that they are not allowed to take stuff that doesn’t belong to them and that is, I think, a fundamental problem… If you can tell people that your religious belief does not give you the right to take the possessions of someone else. Ok? Then If that were established, I think that would completely change, you know, the reality 180 degrees.”
Promoting Faith-Based Segregation
On February 26, 2015, at the above-mentioned symposium, Brown suggested that Americans would have to overcome their “allergy to the idea of religious discrimination” if they wanted to envisage a realistic end to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Brown went on to say and that even within the context of a totally secular democratic state, it would be “absolutely disastrous” for Palestinian Muslims or Palestinian Christians if “a Jew’s allowed” to go into the holy places of other religions “and just start praying there.” Brown said that we “need to accept that” Jerusalem might have to become a “very divided city under some kind of international or … external control.”
Later, Brown highlighted the Palestinian’s perception of being “encroached upon” by Israeli Jews and posited that a “clear notion of stable boundaries and separations” would lead to a “cosmopolitan atmosphere” and help in “building trust.”
Earlier in the symposium, Brown said “I don’t want to say that this isn’t a religious issue, because I think it very clearly is — especially from the Jewish and the Christian perspective — But I think, actually, from the Arab/Muslim perspective not so much.”
Brown argued that even “if you could just erase religion from the minds of Palestinians, they would still have all the problems that they have now” and “the problem would still not be resolved.” Brown also posited that the willingness of fundamental Islamists to fight alongside secular Arabs against Israel showed that the fundamentals of the conflict were not religious.
Brown later posited: I think the religion is the superstructure and the unresolved issues of control and disenfranchisement and land and power and and rights — these are the real issues.”
Presenting BDS as a Muslim Duty
On November 4, 2016, in a podcast titled “Diffused Congruence: The American Muslim Experience,” Brown insinuated that Muslims have a religious responsibility to promote BDS. After listing the various religious, cultural and professional affiliations of some people who support BDS — and singling out some Jews, in particular — Brown went on to say: “Who’s the ones who are going against BDS and undermining it now? It’s the young Muslims. Think about that disgrace.” (7:20).
Brown made his comments in the context of slamming a Jewish-Muslim dialogue project known as the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI,) which was founded by Imam Abdullah Antepli, the first Muslim chaplain at Duke University. MLI is an educational program for Muslim Americans to “understand why Jews believe what they believe, how Jews see their history, why Jews are so attached to this contested strip of land (Israel) — and thus to better engage with American Jews.” According to Antepli, “MLI aims to put mainstream North American Jewry in conversation with their Muslim counterparts.”
Brown said he had no problem with young Muslims “dialoguing” with Jews or Zionists “anywhere.” However, he said that since the organizers “insisted” that the program be held in Israel, it “should reveal what the actual purpose is… to break the boycott in going there.”
Demanding Israel Surrender “Power”
In the same podcast, after arguing that religious segregation is a necessary prerequisite to trust building, Brown argued the basis for the Arab-Israeli conflict is really a political one, caused by an imbalance of power and resources.
Brown argued that if one group has “armed power… resources and international power” and another group does not, then “until that imbalance is rectified, in some way, there’s not going to be a solution.” Brown said you “can’t have peaceful relations or solving an age-old conflict unless the party that is in power surrenders that – until you have some kind of equitable distribution.”
In his closing remarks, Brown responded to a request for his solution to the psychological-religious divide between the parties. Brown hypothesized that “theoretically for an Islamist” such as “someone in Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)” will assert that his religious goals might be to “establish an Islamic state here” and “have Sharia Law” and to “drive all the Jews into the sea.”
Challenging “Freedom” and “Consent”
On February 7, 2017, Brown’s comments at a lecture titled “Islam and The Problem of Slavery” made national headlines. Multiple media outlets accused Brown of speaking in favor of slavery and rape — a claim which Brown denied. The controversy began with a blog post by freelance writer Umar Lee, who attended Brown’s lecture.
On February 8, 2017, it was reported that Brown had conservative journalist Andrew Harrod ejected from the lecture hall, prior to the start of Brown’s formal remarks. Brown referenced the ejection at the beginning of his lecture — and publicly derided the ejected reporter.
Below are a selection of controversial statements Brown made during the lecture and the Q&A period that followed:
In response to a questioner who characterized imposed slavery as a “wrong,” Brown said: “If you’re Muslim, the prophet of God … had slaves. He had slaves. There’s no denying that. Are you more morally mature than the prophet of God? No, you’re not.”
Brown also said: “Slavery cannot just be treated as a moral evil in and of itself, because ‘slavery’ doesn’t mean anything. The moral evil is extreme forms of deprivation of rights and extreme forms of control and extreme forms of exploitation. I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody, because we own lots of people all around us and we’re owned by people.”
On August 9, 2015 — according to a February 11, 2017 screenshot on Twitter — Brown said on Facebook: “I think people have a lot of things mixed up in their minds, forming a sort of outrage soup they can’t deal with. I think one has to proceed in an orderly way 1) slavery is, in general, allowed in Islamic law. 2) It’s very possible (and it’s actually happened) to declare that slavery is no longer permissible whether due to consistent failings in treatment of slaves or the decision of governments for the common good of the Muslim community. 3) But it’s not possible to say that slavery is inherently, absolutely, categorically immoral in all times and places, since it was allowed by the Quran and the Prophet. 4) Slave women do not have agency over their sexual access, so their owner can have sex with them.”
Explaining Non-Consensual Sex
During his February 7, 2017 lecture, Brown challenged modern standards of morality that define human beings as “autonomous agents” and dictate that “the sine qua non of morally correct sex is consent.”
Brown went on to say: “For most of human history, human beings have not thought of consent as the essential feature of morally correct sexual activity. And second, we fetishize the idea of autonomy to the extent that we forget – again, who’s really free? Are we really autonomous people? What does autonomy mean?”
Brown then followed up: “We have this obsession with the idea of autonomy” — and proceeded to equate the servitude of those pressed into sexual slavery or serving as concubines to individuals subject to voluntarily assumed familial obligations, stemming from marriage.
Walking Back Controversial Statements
On February 17, 2017, Brown defended his statements, in the Washington Post, stating: “These people criticizing me don’t know the difference between the past and the present tense. The talk I gave was historical description.”
On February 16, 2017, Brown wrote an article for the online magazine Muslim Matters where he explained his statements. There, Brown wrote: “As a Muslim today, I can say emphatically that slavery is wrong and that Islam prohibits it … It’s easy for me to say this looking back on slavery in American history, because our American slavery was a manifestation of the absolute domination of one human being by another that is, in my opinion, a universal wrong across time and space.”
On February 11, 2017, Brown tweeted: “Islam as a faith and I as a person condemn slavery, rape and concubinage.”
BDS
The BDS movement was founded in 2005 by Omar Barghouti and asserts that it “works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.”
BDS initiatives include compelling institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, academic boycotts, anti-Israel rallies and protests.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, backed by university anti-Israel affiliates, student governments have brought to vote on some form of boycott of — or divestment from — Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities. These resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. In 2013, when the student government of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats and the spitting on a student wearing a Star of David necklace. As a result, the student government chose to vote via a “secret ballot” in order to ensure their own safety.
mortimer says
It is now clear that Jonathan Brown has lost his humanity and become a vicious bigot, mean-spirited anti-Semite and supremacist and slavery-supporter.
Brown’s craze is the result of the bigoted ISLAMIC SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY in which he has immersed himself for years until it has driven him to become a promoter of evil crimes against humanity.
Brown has turned against humanity and become a jihad-zombie.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO AGAIN MORTIMER — Yes, “jihad zombie” perfectly describes this sick CONVERT TO ISLAM.
Dr. Andrew Harrod has written at least two items about him that are up on JW with an easy search.
I encourage newbies to read them — and see what an infantile churl considers solid academic presentations.
Georgetown and its president (a NON-Jesuit) have become utterly corrupted by money from Saudi prince Alwaleed bin-Talal.
Jonathan Brown will perhaps one day be asked why Muslims “take stuff that doesn’t belong to them” — human lives — on a regular basis to please bloodthirsty Allah.
Michael says
To think that, only a few centuries ago in Europe, he would have been put to death for blasphemy.
maghan says
This very stupid man–despite some kind of phony Ph.D.– exists as some kind of professor only because of Saudi money. What else? Who else can get away with saying A in one breath, then turn around and say not A in another breath. I mean, what an abject intellectual clown.
The man lacks the mental ability to think in time and to think spatially. He speaks of “Israelis taking stuff that does not belong to them” as a cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict”. Could he intellectually go back in time and apply that same moral logic to the barbaric invasions of West Asia, and specifically the area of the 1922 Palestine Mandate by the savage Arab hordes that rampaged through West Asia and beyond to rape, murder by beheading, and erase whole language and religions–only to be replaced with an imposed Islam and Arabic language? First things first. The invader Arabs should “return the stuff that does not belong to them”. That includes, in Brown’s logic, cleansing West Asia of its Arab occupiers, Islam and Arabic. Saudi Arabia, their real homeland can more than accommodate them in its vast expanses.
Question: would Brown be in favor of the Spaniards expelling and cleansing their lands of Islam after 800 years of Muslim occupation?
dumbledoresarmy says
“Question: would Brown be in favor of the Spaniards expelling and cleansing their lands of Islam after 800 years of Muslim occupation?”
Somebody should ask him about that.
And about the Christian Greeks kicking out the Mohammedan invaders and occupiers and vicious oppressors.
And the Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians and Hungarians doing likewise.
And the East Timorese (Christian) gaining independence from majority-Muslim Indonesian occupation.
Put him to the test.
In public.
And he might be reminded about al-Awlaki, and the Muslim teaching that it is permitted and indeed *encouraged* to **take the stuff of kuffars** – so what he is doing when he accuses the Jews is… PROJECTION.
Here’s something from six years ago: a fatwa from Anwar al-Awlaki, on the permissibility of Muslims thieving from Infidels within the west, because the west = “dar al harb” and stealing stuff from infidel inhabitants thereof, is perfeclty halal.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/jihadi-cleric-al-awlaki-to-jihadis-in-west-get-money-by-any-means-possible
I quote – “In a new fatwa issued in the lead article of the fourth issue of Inspire magazine, which was published on January 16, 2011, Yemeni-American jihadi cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki encourages jihadists living in the West to assist the financing of jihadi activities through any means possible, including theft, embezzlement and seizure of property….
“In an attempt to deal with the cash-shortage jihadist groups are facing, Al-Awlaki gives religious justification to any actions used by jihadists to obtain money.
“In the article, titled “The Ruling on Dispossessing the Disbelievers’ Wealth in Dar Al-Harb”, He deals with the issue by ruling that Western countries are considered Dar Al-Harb, i.e. the territory of war, countries on which the rules of war apply.
“Since this is the case, Al-Awlaki says Muslims living in the West are not bound by any laws or contracts that prohibit them to harm their countries of residence:
“It is the consensus of our scholars that the property of the disbelievers in dar al-harb is halal [permissible] for the Muslims…”.
Islam: not only the religion of war, lies, rape (including rape of other men’s wives, which is deemed not to be adultery, if the victims – the woman, and her husband – are dirty infidels, since infidel marriage vows are magically annulled when the jihadist grabs the woman), ritual murder and slavery, but *also* the religion of Robbery.
Islam systematically violates every single one of the second table of the Ten Commandments.
Shane says
Like most leftists, he is a traitor to his country and to Western Civilization with his promotion of our ancient enemy, Islam. Islam cannot co-exist with other religions unless they are a very small minority. Anyone who supports Islam is an enemy of the West.
gravenimage says
Maghan, it is not that Jonathan Brown cannot think. He is not just a Leftist. Despite his very Western name, Brown is a Muslim–everything he says is to further the cause of Islam.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
mortima,Jews are evil beyond estimation
.they are treacherous people.they mastermind all evil machinations.people are fed up.mortima,you misunderstood the professor.He highlighted how the jews are right from the midleast to the west where they dominate christian west through tricks.Everybody in the world is complaining against jews with exception of you fools and mr Spencer they sponsor to disseminate lies against islam and muslims.Now they descend on acadamia with their black against anyone who talks about their evil machinations.
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Wellington says
You are beyond pathetic, ibrahim, but thank you for regularly demonstrating all the hate that exists in the worst religion of all time. It’s a heap of hate——-against Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists——–yep, it’s a very long list and evidence of how steeped Islam is in hatred of “the other.” Which is one of several reasons why any sensible and knowledgeable person, people like Hume, Gibbon, Jefferson, Quincy Adams, de Tocqueville, Schopenhauer, Renan, Churchill, Russell, Fallaci, et al., have over time come to despise what that fraud, Mohammed, cooked up in his mind back in the seventh century and then passed off as truth.
Count me in here too and know full well that I think you a fool at best, an enabler of evil at worst. But hey, have a good day. And don’t forget to keep the hate flowing. Islam, you know, is superb in this regard.
mgoldberg says
you are quite normal for your peer group. You are a muslim.
People should not confuse what you say, believe and wish for, with mental illness. It is normal for your peer group. It was what lead Islam to murder some 280 millions of people in 1400 yrs. It has lead to some 500,000 slaughtered and or injured in Jihad attacks just since 9/11, 2001.
You are quite normal for your peer group. You are a Jihadist of Islam.
That is what you are. That’s why this group exists. To show clearly what makes you think, or what passes for thinking. And what makes you what you are…. a Jihadist
ElderlyZionist says
Well spotted. Well said.
mike ryan says
Ibrahim, please! When will Allah stop insisting that his spokesmen be illiterate, racist morons?
gravenimage says
The appalling ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
mortima,Jews (sic) are evil beyond estimation
.they (sic) are treacherous people.they (sic) mastermind all evil machinations.people (sic) are fed up.
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What muhammed means is that Jews did not fall all over themselves accepting the vicious Muhammed as a “prophet” 1400 years ago, which still enrages him and his coreligionists.
He is “fed up” with Jews still surviving and living as free people–especially in their homeland of Israel.
And ibrahim itace muhammed is not even capable of getting Mortimer’s name right. No surprise–he really is semi-literate at best.
More:
mortima,you (sic) misunderstood the professor.He (sic) highlighted how the jews (sic) are right from the midleast (sic) to the west where they dominate christian (sic) west through tricks.Everybody (sic) in the world is complaining against jews (sic) with exception of you fools and mr (sic) Spencer they sponsor to disseminate lies against islam (sic) and muslims.Now (sic) they descend on acadamia (sic) with their black (sic) against anyone who talks about their evil machinations.
…………………………..
This is not “everybody in the world”–this is Muslims.
Is muhammed really unaware that Jonathan Brown is Muslim–or does he just hope that we don’t know that?
And what lies are Jews telling about Islam? As usual, he is incapable of citing a single example.
And muhammed has made this claim before–that we only dislike the idea of Muslims raping and murdering us because we are the “slav of the jews”.
maghan says
Stupid fool, if Jews are that evil why did you dumb Arabs steal their religion? They should sue your stupid kin for copyright theft.
Are Arabs so stupid and weak in brainpower that they couldn’t make up their own religion?
Dumb Arab/Muslim why is your stupid religion so full of revered Jewish names. Ibrahim, Musa, Yusuf, Issa, Isaka, Dauda, Mariama, Suleiman, etc.?
Don Foss says
Reminder, Ibraham: you belong to the world’s most hated group of people on the planet, and for all the right reasons. Congratulations.
Shane says
It is true that most Jews are left wingers, but certainly not all of them. There are many good Jews, just as there are many good Christians, Buddhists, and even Muslims! Mo hated the Jews because they would not convert to Islam, even after he changed Islam to be more compatible with Judaism. Jews are certainly not apes and pigs as Mo stated, so stop hating on all Jews.
Don Foss says
Under the guise of intellectualism…faux intellectualism. How convenient that the Jews need to learn they don’t just take what is not theirs (when it is an actual historic fact that it is theirs), when it was taken by jihadis and over-taken by Islamic culture centuries ago, like every other territory under Islamic controlled area save Malaysia and Indonesia. And of course taking another human being is perfectly fine too. Muhammad did it, so…
Mr. Brown and his ilk are Islamists and supremacists, which makes them psychopathic along with other mental disorders that come with swallowing Islamic doctrine. He’s a symptom of the sickness on our college campuses that allow for this to even be.
no_one says
Many people are morally more mature then the “prophet” of islam. He was a 6-7th century thug and nothing more. It is offensive to compare a contemporary person with an ancient thug.
Bill W. says
But he following that Thug (Brown)he is morally bankrupt ,you have to be to be an Islamic. We have ancient Thugs stabbing Priest in France and Mexico. We have Thugs running over people using cars and trucks to crush people, we have Thugs blowing up buildings , shooting people while crying out allah is greater. Most people non Islamics are better then the prophet who had his book written while the devil told him tales of ruling the world.
Lucia Bartoli says
I’ve been of the opinion that most Catholic Universities are no longer worthy of the “Catholic” designation. They are thoroughly secularized and this goes back to the “Land ‘o Lakes” conference in the late 1950s where a number of bishops had a conference. As a devout, traditional Roman Catholic, this is horrific. For the record, I am going to call Georgetown to register my extreme displeasure. My uncle spent 21 months in the “camps” of Dachau and Mauthausen (liberated May 1945) for hiding Italian and Austrian Jews throughout the northern Italian countryside. This kind of stupidity at the altar of political correctness need be corrected and it is an insult to those who perished AND survived the Shoah. I am disgusted at the great amount of anti-semitic sentiment in the U S. I am a fan also of Timothy D. Lusch and his writings about Dawn, Dislocation of faith and the hijacking of Catholic-Muslim dialogue. Keep up the good work..you are necessary to the education of those who will listen (and bring some to their senses before it is too late.)
Lucia Bartoli says
This should read “dawah” not dawn
Dawah is the call to Islam
gravenimage says
Lucia Bartoli wrote:
My uncle spent 21 months in the “camps” of Dachau and Mauthausen (liberated May 1945) for hiding Italian and Austrian Jews throughout the northern Italian countryside.
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Your uncle is a brave and decent man, and you have a proud heritage, Lucia.
Ed Lee says
Long ago did Brown cross over to the dark side. It is interesting to note that the spiritual themes of Star Wars come from the work of Joseph Campbell (who died in 1987), and that George Lucas was a friend and student of Campbell. For an enlightening description of evil, read Campbell’s first book in his Masks of God series, “Primitive Mythology”. Jonathan Brown is evil, but he’s only dangerous to people who have been taught what to think, not to people who know how to think.
Frank Anderson says
I suggest following the proverb, “When dealt a lemon make lemonade”. If you can’t speak safely on campus, make your own venue and security arrangements off campus. It has worked before. It will cost money, which should be available from supporters. It would give a good thumb in the eyes of those who don’t like to hear the truth. A few dollars each from “how many supporters of free speech” could quickly challenge George Soros and his allies. Like the observation about the Cuban revolution in the movie “Godfather”, “The soldiers have to be paid; the revolutionaries are willing to fight for free.” Look at who is getting paid now and; are we willing to fight for free? Or even donate to the cause of freedom?
Consider the experience in Germany before Hitler took power. This could be a good time to demonstrate that we “evil advocates of free speech and liberty” can be just as determined to proclaim liberty as those who wish to destroy liberty for all who dare to disagree with them. Use your imagination. Why leave to our declared enemies to determine when, where and how our speakers are allowed to speak? . .
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer speaks all over the world, either for fees or by donating his time. The idea that he–of all people–is not doing enough for freedom of speech is pretty questionable.
Frank Anderson says
I assure you that it is not Robert Spencer that I am proposing to do more. It is the rest of us. Supporting him and others like him who expose the lies and teach the ignorant is the best hope we have for eventual victory. Allowing our countries to be conquered and occupied for centuries, as has been done for many centuries in Europe, and then trying to assemble under the deadly domain of Sharia “law” a resistance, is not a rational act, and is an alternative to be avoided at all costs. The conquest needs to be resisted immediately with information and education, quite like RS and others in his mold are doing now. How can that education be magnified in view of the grave risks constantly demonstrated worldwide and daily?
Why do the Muslims and their collaborators fight him and allies so hard to prevent them from conveying the truth? Because they know the best antidote to the poison of lies and evil that is Islam is the plain, simple, complete truth. If Spencer can’t speak “on campus” with security for himself and his audience, then speak off campus where security can be provided. This tells the collaborators to take their college money and ____ it. “He who pays the fiddler calls the tune.” I think it could be a good time to “pass the hat” to enable more communications, either in person, or even remotely (ex. GoToMeeting or even DVD recordings of his speeches) where security is enabled by being able to attend at home.
I believe you misunderstood my post and my intentions. Both of you have my highest level of admiration and support. I cannot explain the level of my embarrassment arising from my ignorance on this subject after 9/11. GWB confused me for several years until others informed me of my error.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Frank. I know there is more I need to be doing.
Frank Anderson says
GI, short story that illustrates: After my official adopted father died, my mother worked 7 days a week from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. holding down a full time job as a telephone operator and running a boarding house. It was an economic miracle that she kept up this hideous pace until she was 69 and I was out of college. All kinds of people kept telling her what she should or needed to do. Only 1 person actually helped her. You and I by ourselves can help others to see what is the problem and help motivate enough people to solve it. It takes all aware people working and contributing to the same goal to resist this poison, evil and lies.
Benedict says
Here is an example of the “knowledge” Prof. Jonathan Brown Georgetown University espouse:
“the prophet can’t sin.” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYk-tRp9jk (11:15)
The delusion of Prof. Brown can hardly be more explicit since:
“The moral characteristics we find exemplified in the life of Muhammad typically are found in power hungry despots whose interests are of a purely selfish nature.
After achieving political power in Medina, Muhammad’s life became a picture of unbridled power, which he used to fulfill every desire he had, from plundering nearby tribes just to take possession of their wealth, to influencing his followers to give up their wives so he could have them.” (Wikiislam)
gravenimage says
Yes, I’ve seen that appalling video, Benedict.
Jonathan Brown is castigating an audience member for being “agitated” over the pedophile “Prophet” raping a nine-year old child. *Ugh*.
Silvia says
It’s obvious to you guys that there’s a chance of 99.9% that this POS is a convert to Islam, right? No way would a muslim man, especially one who is an islamic jihadist, marry his daughter to a non-muslim.
SK says
It’s literally confirmed.
gravenimage says
Jonathan Brown *is* Muslim. He doesn’t make a secret of it, except for not using his Muslim name.
Benedict says
God himself discriminates in favor of the Jews and Prof. Brown should consider, that the presence of Israel in the midst of the Muslim world and the Jews rightful ownership of Jerusalem is a constant exposure of the impotence of Allah and his ridiculous prophet traveling to heaven on a flying donkey.
mousey says
this ami horowitz short says a lot about how students feel toward isis vs israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHJ06bsSow
gravenimage says
Yes–this is grimly enlightening.
common sense says
Disregarding any long list that every country in the world may have or had We and Isreal have measurable peace already, we don’t need Islam or their dhimmi’s virtue signaling how they are all about creating trust while they pilfer our system, perpetuate hate in universities and kill us.
If peace is really what Islam is then leave us alone.
David says
Persons like this professor dude are the reason I think degrees are worthless!
gamaliel says
If you want that Saudi grant money that’s the way to go.
simpleton1 says
He is a muslim, and is doing all things expected of a muslim
He admits to being muslim and had to become a muslim per sharia law to be married to
So he is no hypocrite, not a bigot, but simply doing his duty as a follower of the most perfect man, Mohammad and practicing dawa and covering by Taqiyya and all its variants.
Still a bit young to develop a zebibah and his beard seems a bit slow growing too.
gravenimage says
Exactly.
gee says
Funny how in the 1920s-1940s the British solution was to disarm the JEWS – only Arabs were allowed weapons and there was no balance.
Then Israel kicked the British out and the answer was to place only Israel under an arms embargo while arming the Arab states.
Want a real solution to the ‘Palestinians’? Try Front Page Magazine
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266731/how-solve-palestinian-problem-daniel-greenfield
gee says
Funny how in the 1920s-1940s the British solution was to disarm the JEWS – only Arabs were allowed weapons and there was no balance.
Then Israel kicked the British out and the answer was to place only Israel under an arms embargo while arming the Arab states.
Want a real solution to the ‘Palestinians’? Try Dan Greenfield’s piece on Front Page Magazine “How to solve the Palestinian Problem”
Cretius says
Academic Fascists like Prof. Brown have abandoned the concept that university is a place for learning, a place for the exchange of ideas and a place for debate of those ideas. Like all Islamic ideologues, Prof. Brown sees university as a soapbox where he can spout his Islamist supremacist ideas and propaganda. Is he also a Holocaust denier? That would not surprise me as it is one step from his position as a Jew hater and Jew baiter. Julius Streicher who was widely known as ‘Jew-Baiter Number One.’ is probably his template.
Karen says
“But it’s not possible to say that slavery is inherently, absolutely, categorically immoral in all times and places, since it was allowed by the Quran and the Prophet. 4) Slave women do not have agency over their sexual access, so their owner can have sex with them.”
Yes, it’s vitally critical to the existence of Islam that the sexual exploits and slave ownership of Mohammad be viewed as sanctified. Which is why Brown goes on a few lines later to muddy the discussion with the usual finger pointing at American slavery. If pressed I think his only way out of this one would be to claim that by comparison, Islamic slavery isn’t ‘real’ slavery. I’ve heard people use the same argument to dismiss current day slavery in certain nations, relegating it to ‘a cultural thing’ or a special relationship to a wealthy benefactor.
Every online apologics site will repeat the same old tired line that Islam’s intention was that slavery die out slowly, over time. The United States fought a civil war to end American slavery. What has Islam done?
gravenimage says
Exactly–we *abolished* slavery, at a high cost. Slavery not only continues under Islam, it is undergoing a sick revival.
Edward Dillon says
What an idiot
Karen says
Says Jonathon Brown: “And second, we fetishize the idea of autonomy to the extent that we forget – again, who’s really free? Are we really autonomous people? What does autonomy mean?”
Are we as free as we should be? Debatable. That, of course, does not legitimize rape, slavery, sexual slavery. Mr. Brown is very intellectually dishonest.
gravenimage says
Jonathan Brown is a Muslim promoting Shari’ah law, which includes the use of Infidel women as sex slaves.
Karen says
“Brown also posited that the willingness of fundamental Islamists to fight alongside secular Arabs against Israel showed that the fundamentals of the conflict were not religious.”
Ultra-fundamental Islamists regularly join forces with Western atheists and leftists. Are the Islamists less religiously motivated in their agendas, like the promotion of Sharia, and special accommodation? Hardly. Just shabby thinking, or deception, from Mr. Brown.
Option61c says
The easiest way to deal with clowns like this is to ignore them. Once he realizes that he’s no longer getting a rise out of people he’ll move on to something more befitting his stature like pumping out septic tanks or collecting Bull semen.
bill says
Professor Jon Brown is a Muslim. That fact means he supports slavery, and brutality against women and non Muslims especially against Jews and Christians.