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Jonathan A. C. Brown, a professor at Georgetown University, has deleted his X account after sparking a firestorm by expressing his contempt and disdain for the victims of the Muslim rape gangs who (with willing aid from leftists) destroyed the lives of a generation of British girls. That’s good, as Brown has nothing of value to say to anyone on any topic, but it leaves untouched the larger question: why is this thoroughly distasteful individual, who has previously justified Islamic slavery and rape, a professor at a major American university?
The death knell for Brown’s X account first sounded when British politician Rupert Lowe wrote: “There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion — we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry. That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact.” Lowe was entirely correct, as Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It details, and Brown, contrary to the pattern of many Islamic apologists, didn’t bother contradicting what he said. Instead, the learned professor wrote: “Get over it.”
When challenged, Brown doubled down. Another X used correctly pointed out: “There is something absurdly evil about saying ‘get over it’ in context with gang rape, torture and murder for religious reasons. Something like this would never be said about any other group for lesser crimes.” To that, Brown replied with the same indifference and venom for which he was being rebuked: “Get over it.”
Libs of Tik Tok posted screenshots of Brown’s X posts and asked: “Do you support this @Georgetown?” The answer is likely yes, it does. Georgetown University has received over $1 billion from Qatar since 2005, as well as at least $20 million from the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Brown is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
While the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding purports to build bridges of understanding between Muslims and Christians, it is actually a center for Islamic apologetics and the defamation and destruction of foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. Brown’s own public stances are an abundant illustration of this.
Brown, a convert to Islam, is open about his allegiance to elements of Islamic doctrine that other Islamic apologists in the U.S. routinely deny even exist. He has cheerfully embraced the idea that Islam condones slavery. He has said: “I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody.” He has also condoned the rape of female non-Muslim war captives: “Consent isn’t necessary for lawful sex.” In 2023, he doubled down on his support for Islamic slavery, saying: “I’m not going to say that the Quran allows something evil” or Muhammad, who owned slaves. “did something morally evil.”
“Slavery is in the Quran,” Brown added, “and the precedent of the Prophet Muhammad… You can’t say that the Quran prohibited slavery, because it didn’t.” As repulsive as Brown’s stance is, it is a refreshing departure from the soothing lies Islamic apologists usually feed to unsuspecting non-Muslims. “If you think slavery is a gross and intrinsic evil throughout space and time, somebody who is complicit in that is not a qualified moral role model,” Brown said. Yet “in the Islamic tradition, prophets are morally upstanding.”
Indeed. Adding to all this is the fact that Brown’s father-in-law, Sami al-Arian, is a convicted jihad terror leader who labored in south Florida for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Brown himself is, not surprisingly, viciously anti-Israel. In November 2023, weeks after Hamas jihadis massacred 1,200 Israelis, Brown wrote: “Israel has been engaged in a genocidal project for decades. I’m a full professor.” In March 2024, he followed that up with “Israeli security forces are lunatics. Israel is insanely racist.”
The fact that a doctrinaire pro-Hamas Muslim hardliner and slavery and rape apologist would hold a respectable professorial chair in a major university is an indication of how advanced the rot is in our Saudi- and Qatari-funded colleges and universities. Jonathan Brown is not a jihadi, but he is a thoroughly detestable human being. Why do so many converts to Islam fall into this category?
