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“Aren’t You Tired of Writing Your Stupid Articles?” Georgetown Prof Jonathan Brown Expels Critic From Lecture

Feb 9, 2017 11:38 am By Andrew Harrod

“Aren’t you tired of writing your stupid articles?”

I recall Georgetown University’s Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Jonathan A. C. Brown, saying that to me on February 7 at Herndon, Virginia’s International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). Brown’s brief angry remarks quickly led to my expulsion from his imminent lecture, “Islam and the Problem of Slavery”: an indication of how he and his fellow Islamism apologists handle opposing views.

I had entered IIIT’s conference room in a small office complex anxious to hear Brown, the director of Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU). Shortly before the lecture’s evening beginning, he and IIIT Director of Research and Academic Programs Ermin Sinanović were preparing at a speaker’s podium before empty chair rows while two veiled IIIT assistants readied for the lecture. After I had taken a seat in the back row, Brown became visibly irritated upon noticing this writer, who has covered his previous appearances.

Before reiterating his previously tweeted disgust at my “stupid” articles, Brown began by asking if I intended to enjoy the IIIT’s food, after my appetite had impressed him at several Georgetown events (the IIIT lecture offered no refreshments). He then mused whether he should photograph me while visiting an Islamist, Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-affiliated institution, observations that most certainly came to him from my reporting on a previous IIIT lecture hosted by Sinanović. Brown then indicated a willingness to speak before most anyone, but felt incensed by my presence at IIIT after my having supposedly “insulted” this institution, whereupon Sinanović asked me to leave.

Given Brown’s background, I was particularly interested in hearing him address the contentious topics of Islam and slavery. A Washington, DC, area native, Brown, like me, is from an Anglican background, but converted to Islam under the strong influence of a Muslim professor his freshman year at Georgetown, as he explained in a 2010 interview. She impressed him with “things that I had believed my whole life; the nature of God, the idea of reason, the idea that reason and religion are supposed to be compatible, religion should enhance your life, not make it difficult and not make you suffer.”

Brown’s admiration for Islam’s prophet Muhammad, who “was both idealistic and effective,” is puzzling to many non-Muslims. He

was the best person in every situation….Jesus is always kind and forgiving. But sometimes you can’t be forgiving. You shouldn’t be; sometimes you have to soft and sweet and sometimes you have to be direct and harsh; sometimes you have to be patient and at other times you have to act quickly. There isn’t always one rule that you can apply to your life that will tell you how to act. You have to be able to read the situation and act in the best way. The Prophet knew how to do that; that is inspirational.

Many would also question Brown’s assessment that the

reason why there is conflict between Muslims and Western countries is because Western countries are invading or occupying Muslims countries….Westerners depict Muslims as violent because the Muslims react against the invasions.

Brown married his fellow Muslim Georgetown graduate, Laila Al-Arian. This award-winning Al Jazeera television producer is the daughter of the University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian. American authorities deported this Palestinian to Turkey in 2015 as part of a 2006 conviction for providing material support to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Befitting Brown’s father-in-law (the family that wages jihad together stays together?), Brown, his Georgetown ACMCU colleagues Yvonne Haddad and John Esposito, and Sinanović support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. All of them have signed a declaration of religious studies scholars with the usual BDS statements condemning Israel’s “colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967” and “discriminatory laws” similar to “South African apartheid.” The declaration’s demands also include Israel recognizing “rights of Palestinian refugees to return,” a measure that would demographically destroy Israel’s Jewish state.

Brown’s BDS support has caused him to oppose the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC) recently launched by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the MB-derived Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Given AJC’s opposition to BDS and Islamism, the MJAC interfaith effort has not received a warm welcome from his ilk. On Facebook, he has accordingly declared that “[a]fter receiving advice from people more knowledgeable than me on BDS,” he has concluded that “[p]artnering with the AJC would be a violation of BDS” so he “can’t support the MJAC plan.”

Brown’s Facebook page reveals more Islamist radicalism, like his pro-MB Rabia symbol Facebook profile. For him, this symbol popularized after the Egyptian military’s brutal 2013 crackdown on the MB indicates that “subverting progress towards more accountable government cannot be allowed.” Despite the MB’s totalitarian and violent legacy, his Facebook postings declare that “to use ‘the Muslim Brotherhood’ in the same sentence with Isis, terrorism or extremism cannot be tolerated.” Similarly, on Facebook he has posted “#IMarchWithLinda” in support of the “Women’s March on Washington” organizer Linda Sarsour, another Islamist BDS supporter who has tweeted “nothing is creepier than Zionism.”

Brown’s Facebook radicalism also has a domestic dimension when he posts that “Muslims in America should stand with Black Lives Matter,” another pro-BDS movement. “Muslims who don’t have the bandwidth to be supportive on this issue should remain silent on it,” he writes. While he condemns Israel, “white men should let African Americans speak for themselves and support them. They probably shouldn’t offer their opinions on issues regarding the African American community.”

I can only look forward to future encounters with Brown (and Sinanović, who once greeted me at a Georgetown event) with increased curiosity. Apparently, my merely critically reporting their views to a wider public (all the while enjoying various refreshments) has struck a nerve, making my presence intolerable. The next time I see these individuals at Georgetown University (with its open public access policy) or anywhere else, I will enjoy an extra sandwich on them.

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  1. AnneM says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    The truth needs to be told!!

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 1:25 pm

      Hello Anne — Professor Brown’s refusal to let Dr. Harrod attend the lecture is a perfect example of a “Muslim-as-victim” tactic, which goes all the way back to Muhammad’s strategy during early years at Mecca.

      Yesterday in another comment at a different post, I suggested David Wood’s superb and relevant “Three Stages of Jihad” — running a longish 25 minutes but easily found on YouTube.

      With his typically meticulous citations from the Qur’an and Hadith, Dr. Wood (Fordham PhD) discusses how that “prophet” deceived persons in order to gain power.

      .

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 6:17 pm

        A little more info about David’s video, because it is an excellent basic education for those of us knowing the intent of Islam, but also needing a simple description of how the plan proceeds:

        He talks about STEALTH JIHAD, DEFENSIVE JIHAD, OFFENSIVE JIHAD. Professor Brown, a devout Muslim, therefore holding Muhammad as the perfect exemplar of men, and who worships bloodthirsty Allah, is obviously secretly in Stage One — Stealth Jihad.

        DAVID WOOD CITES MUSLIM SOURCES TO ESTABLISH HIS ASSERTIONS ABOUT ALL 3 STAGES, BEGINNING WITH STEALTH JIHAD, and subsequently explaining the other two. As a bonus, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, our recently departed traitor-in-chief, chimes in with oodles of taqiyya.

        • Yousef says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 5:00 pm

          https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/4-stages-of-islamic-conquest/

          Here is an excellent summary showing how these different stages of Islamic Supremacy / Jihad are playing out in all its ugly forms the world over.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 7:35 pm

      HERE IS A PATH TO THE RECTOR (TOP CATHOLIC CLERIC) AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY:

      https://jesuits.georgetown.edu/members/lingan

      For those of us who see moral corruption infecting this Jesuit resource of scholarship, take a few minutes to contact him. Politely & concisely cite your own truth resources about Islam NOT BEING LIKE THE 2 OTHER “ABRAHAMIC MONTHEISMS” — Judaism and Christianity.

      My best choices: www (dot) citizenwarrior (dot) com / www (dot) understandingislam (dot) com / www (dot) thereligionofpeace (dot) com / www (dot) barenakedislam (dot) com. I omit Robert’s and Pam’s excellent blogs because they are less concentrated on the essence of Islam — instead covering current developments on a day to day calendar.

      Remember, however, that this well-intended Western-perspective fellow is isolated by distance and time from 7th Century history, so please give some specifics about your own trip from comfortable privilege guilt cluelessness to upsetting enlightenment.

      Also emphasize Jihad Watch’s author credentials spot (black bar at homepage top “About Robert Spencer”) and his standing offer to debate or discuss definite assertions and topics proposed by serious persons in fair venues or formats.

      And, I am confident that if the Georgetown Rector contacted Mr. Spencer privately for a confidential dialogue — with participants from its faculity — such a request will be honored. Professor Brown’s arrogant juvenile hissy-fit against Dr. Harrod gives us a chance reverse Islam’s shredding of one formerly independent bastion of intellectual integrity.

      Conclude your email by insisting to the Rector that Georgetown must entirely divest itself from all involvement with Islamist ACMCU’s treasonous agenda — clearly shown in John Esposito’s internet postings over the decades since Saudi Arabia first put money into this university’s pocket.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 9:06 pm

        CORRECTION: One of the truth resources I cite above should actually be “www (dot) inquiryintoislam (dot) com — NOT www (dot) understandingislam (dot) com.

        Here is another terrific choice — by Dr. Bill Warner, the bow-tie wearing physicist who is also an expert on the death cult pretending to be a peaceful religion: www (dot) politicalislam (dot) com.

        • Barry Goldberg says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 3:58 pm

          We sincerely appreciate you, Pamela, Robert, and Andrew. Hopefully, Trump and Bannon will (continue to) put words into action, and will make every effect to attack soft jihad in this country at its sources: academia, beginning in the early stages and all the way up to the Browns and Coles, et. al., ad nauseum; as well as making substantial changes to the culture of the State Department, Education Department, Homeland Security, and in all other institutions.

      • Samuel Barthis says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 3:09 am

        They can’t do what you so generously offer because lots of money probably changes hands- there are grants, and “investments” by Islamic proponents, scholarships and the like. It is sad that Western scholars sell the West out just to make the promulgation of Shari’a law more probable

        • Carolyne says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 9:05 am

          IMO Georgetown, like many other institutes of “Higher learning,” is bought and paid for by Saudi Arabia. They will do nothing to bite the Muslim hand which feeds them.

    • judy says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 3:55 pm

      So-called prof & left winged socialist commies do NOT want the truth out, wait until some of them have a loved one raped or murdered things will get taken care of how sad

      • Julia says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 11:40 am

        It seems to me nothing gets through their thick and blind heads. Before Muslim immigration had we even heard of the ancient solution to conflict where people on American soil were decapitated. Off with their heads was a line from a Queen made of cards in a children’s book. As the American people witness more and more barbarism and violence they seem to only grow sympathetic to Muslims

    • Joe McDonald says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 9:26 pm

      An email I sent to “dr” brown nose:
      brownj2@georgetown.edu
      No one with even a young child’s intellect could possibly be so utterly vapid & vacuous, oblivious to fact, insensitive to truth, decency, ethics & morality…
      I simply could not understand your shariaDiahrea verbal fecal discharge, wtf could possibly be inside your macabre little head???
      But then it dawned on me….
      SUBVERSIVE SAUDI DIAHREA DOLLARS!!!
      They are PAYING you to spout out your putrid, offensive, anti-American bigotry & treason.
      And in your treasonous, spineless moral deficit, you are taking the money and saying whatever those oppressive zealots tell you to!!
      Truly a subhuman shell of man.
      NEW LAW IDEA -ONE THAT WILL ENDURE:
      Outlaw oppressive regimes like the saudi zealot/perverts from paying funds to our educational & other institutions, which perverts our youth and undermines our culture of decency, morality, ethics, human rights, tolerance, equality, Liberty & Justice.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    TO LET PROFESSOR BROWN KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF HIS COWARDICE AND FEAR ABOUT LETTING DR. HARROD HEAR WHAT WOULD BE SAID —

    This is a path for contact: http://contact.georgetown.edu/mail/

    Note that apparently Georgetown University is so worried about correspondents having easy access to its faculty, that it hides simple access, so you will have to use their template arrangement.

    By the way, a valid email address is required, but if you want to prevent your main one from spamming or threats by ACMCU goons at Georgetown’s campus, GMAIL MAKES THE CREATION OF A NEW ADDRESS VERY EASY. Use it exclusively for conversations with privilege-guilt pathological excusers of Islam.

    And, for icing on the cupcake, be sure to insist that professor Brown watch David Wood’s brilliant video “Muhammad — the White Prophet with Black Slaves”. You can get a link to it on YouTube — sorry for not specifying one here.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:32 pm

      Actually, the link to Jonathan Brown which Dr. Harrod gives in highlighted color is slightly more friendly than the path I have in the comment above, so you might want to try it, but an email address is mandatory, so get going with the Gmail solution of a disposable one.

      HERE IS DAVID WOOD’S VIDEO ABOUT “The whitest prophet in history”:

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:42 pm

      On a personal note, in November 2012 I had the honor of an hour’s meeting with this wonderful author, to discuss an idea my ancient brain hatched. I mentioned a remarkable and rare achievement — he holds both a PhD and JD ! His explanation was “Well, my mother suggested that, since I already had a doctorate, why not just get a law degree too?”

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm

        Interesting, jihad3tracker. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall!

        • Andrew E Harrod says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 8:53 pm

          That incident really impressed him.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 5:37 pm

          🙂

    • JawsV says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 2:48 pm

      Here’s his e-mail:

      brownj2@georgetown.edu

      From:

      https://acmcu.georgetown.edu/faculty

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 4:30 pm

        Excellent work, JawsV !!! Now, please channel the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, thus giving us the email path to Christian/Catholic Georgetown University’s president, John DeGioia.

        He is shoulder-deep in silence about the subjugative & violent core of Islam — perhaps some of us who find such behavior reprehensible would like to tell him what we think about that.

      • Joe McDonald says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 2:11 pm

        AWESOME!!!!!
        I can’t wait to email this feces regurgitating, vapid & vacuous, hypocritical, blasphemous heretic.
        I will not besmirch this noble site with the profanity that “dr” brown nose will now receive, Thank You & God Bless You!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 11, 2017 at 9:46 pm

      What is it that these Georgetown teachers have to hide? If they are hiding their views from a wider public, there must be something wrong and unacceptable about those opinions. What is it?

      I suggest they are hiding, because, in fact, their opinions cannot be supported with the evidence available to everyone today through libraries and the internet.

      They are, in short, whitewashing Islam.

  3. Westman says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    “Muslims in America should stand with Black Lives Matter,..”

    What typical strange logic – Black Lives Matter should want support from the very people whose Ideology and ancestors were their ancestor’s slavers? That would be like asking, 1963’s Bull Conner, for an endorsement.

    Apparently, if one can reconcile the contradictions in the Quran and Sunna, it’s a logic killer.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 4:10 pm

      Well, if all the Blacks are killed, who are muslims going to enslave and sell to non-muslims?

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 5:51 pm

        Non-Muslims no longer practice slavery–in fact, Infidels are the ones who abolished slavery. But Muslims are reviving slavery over much of Dar-al-Islam as we speak.

        • epistemology says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 9:30 pm

          Very true, they enjoy enslaving all non-Muslims they can get hold of.

          “…the idea that reason and religion are supposed to be compatible, religion should enhance your life, not make it difficult and not make you suffer.”

          Islam and reason are totally incompatible and Islam makes nobody suffer except some infidels who deserve suffering. This moron Brown is an oxymoron.

          Those people promoting BDS are all rampant anti-Semites, it’s pathetic

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 5:38 pm

          All true, epistemology.

  4. john spielman says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    IF this was a PUBLIC LECTURE, how can anyone be expelled unless they are personally causing a disruption by yelling, throwing things, etc? This is a violation of freedom of expression by the ACADEMIC WHORES at George Washington university!

    • Andrew Harrod says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:43 pm

      No, the lecture was at the private International Institute of Islamic Thought, as the article specifies.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:48 pm

      Hello John — A correction: this was at GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, not George Washington u. As many of us already know, this old (founded in 1789) Jesuit institution has be utterly corrupted by Saudi money, the first of which was given a couple of decades ago. Do a search here at Jihad Watch to find previous posts by Robert regarding Georgetown’s moral rot after Islam loving supremacists at ACMCU beheaded academic neutrality and honesty.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 1:06 pm

        CORRECTING MYSELF — As clearly noted in this post by Dr. Harrod, Brown’s lecture was in suburban Virginia, NOT at Georgetown’s campus in Washington DC.

  5. Mark A says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Isn’t Georgetown supposedly a Catholic university?

    Yet here we have Muslims teaching Islam at a Saudi funded facility within Georgetown.

    Also interesting that Brown, at that time an Anglican, was converted to Islam at Georgetown by a Muslim professor.

    It seems Georgetown has seriously strayed from the Catholic path.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:50 pm

      See my comment above. “Seriously strayed” is a big understatement.

    • Tom W Harris says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 10:50 pm

      No kidding. And why does a Catholic university have a “Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization” anyhow?

  6. Rosewood11 says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    Dear Professor Brown, In response to your “stupid” question, not half as tired as I am of Georgetown calling itself a Christian institution–Catholic or any other denomination!!!

  7. Shmooviyet says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    Putting aside all the creepy connections to Al-Arian, BDS, Sarsour etc., the question itself has a juvenile, snotty sound.The author’s presence in the audience is just too much for this insecure brat.
    This is what passes as an adult, in the leftist “islamapologist” bubble.

    • avi15 says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 7:06 pm

      He’s just a muppet.

  8. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    Muslims believe non-Muslims are inferior individuals, that’s the reason there is conflict.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 9:12 am

      Having married their first cousins for generations, the intellect of the average Muslim must be far below that of civilized people. This would make them inferior, at least intellectually to Westerners. I wonder if there ae any studies on this.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 5:57 pm

        Yes, there are, Carolyne.

        Here are world rankings of nations by IQ:

        https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

        Muslim countries many of those in the bottom third. To put it in some context, the average IQ in Hong Kong is 108, in the UK 100, and in Somalia just 68.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 6:02 pm

          That should be, “Muslim countries make up many of those in the bottom third”.

  9. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    I suppose there was no bacon sandwich to enjoy

  10. davej says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    The Islamist tactic is to quash the discussion and forbid criticism, revealing both their shallow intellect and totalitarian methods. This also why they generally refuse to participate in open debates, on some level they know the weakness of their argument and don’t want it exposed. The goal is to preach Sharia not defend the awful ideology.

    Any organization that includes the concept of “blasphemy” and that will kill you for criticizing or leaving it is by definition a dangerous cult. Doesn’t matter if it is Scientology, Jim Jones, Aum Shinrikyo or Muhammed’s madness.

    • avi15 says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm

      Agreed. Islam is a cult. Invariably, Muslims don’t debate because they must know they will always lose the argument. The one exception is where they can shout and scream and bully the audience that way.

    • The RationalVoice says

      Feb 15, 2017 at 10:49 am

      What all religions have in common is their fear of rationality in humans. They know that will mean the end of their false and in some cases dangerous doctrines emanating from an ignorant past. This is why the Pope sees Islam as a brother religion and ignores its daily foul deeds around the world. This is also why Islam supports blasphemy laws in non Muslim countries with Muslim minorities and hates freedom of speech and rational debate as they are inevitably the loser. This is also in common with dictatorships like Nazism and Communism which are also kinds of religion
      No religion should be given special respect and should be held to account for its actions and ethos. The world should set its own set of secular moral principles In keeping with the greater factual knowledge of our times not those of a barbaric past

  11. miriamrove says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    The only thing Islamists are good at is silencing free sppeech. m

  12. Guest says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    When people get angry at your comments it means they have no come back and that they are true

  13. Champ says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Piety Alert: islamic supremacy put on display.

    What are muslims if not pious tyrants.

  14. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    “Aren’t you tired of writing your stupid articles?”
    …………………………….

    That is, isn’t Robert Spencer tired of upholding our civilized values in the face of Islamic savagery?

    Lucky for all of us that he suffers no such fatigue.

    More:

    I recall Georgetown University’s Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Jonathan A. C. Brown, saying that to me on February 7 at Herndon, Virginia’s International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). Brown’s brief angry remarks quickly led to my expulsion from his imminent lecture, “Islam and the Problem of Slavery”: an indication of how he and his fellow Islamism apologists handle opposing views.
    …………………………….

    This is *appalling*. Robert Spencer is not disruptive; he certainly is not violent, as are many Muslims and Leftists who might disagree with a lecturer. He is just apt to be critical of the content of the lecture, after the fact.

    Could anyone imagine the confident and decent Robert Spencer expelling a non-violent person from one of his own lectures–even if he thought the writer might be dishonest (which Spencer himself would never be) in his depiction of his views? Of course not.

    And then there is the topic of that lecture: “Islam and the Problem of Slavery”. No other group has an ongoing problem with slavery–unless one casts a broad net and includes human trafficking, which is of course also illegal and prosecuted in the civilized world.

    But slavery not only still exists in the Muslim world, it is *resurgent*. 17% of the population of Mauritania is estimated to suffer in slavery. Slavery is still rife in other places like Sudan. And slavery and sex slavery is an integral part of the Islamic State.

    And why? Because the foul “Prophet” Muhammed enslaved his victims, was a slave trader, and raped sex slaves. And pious Muslims deem him the ideal man, and all of his vicious actions to be the model for all time.

    • Andrew Harrod says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 4:16 pm

      I was there and wrote this article, not Robert Spencer. Perhaps Robert is less disruptive than I?

      Andrew E. Harrod

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 5:00 pm

        Mr. Harrod, I realized my mistake and wrote the post below before your post appeared here. I am familiar with your important work. I usually avoid the mistake of assuming that all articles here are written by Robert Spencer, but did not read your byline at first. Again, my apologies.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 4:26 pm

      My apologies–I had assumed this article was written by Robert Spencer–instead, it is by Andrew Harrod. All my points hold, though.

      Here are some of Mr. Harrod’s fine articles available at Frontpage Magazine:

      http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/andrew-harrod

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 4:32 pm

        Thank you for the link.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 5:54 pm

          Thanks, jihad3tracker.

      • Andrew Harrod says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 4:48 pm

        Maybe Robert eats less?

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 9, 2017 at 5:00 pm

          🙂

        • Carolyne says

          Feb 10, 2017 at 9:16 am

          Strange that they would monitor how much Mr. Harrod eats but not how many innocents are killed by Islam nor how many women are oppressed and physically mutilated.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 11, 2017 at 2:14 pm

          True, Carolyne–priorities.

          But this was just intended to insult Mr. Harrod, and likely had no basis, in any case.

  15. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 5:00 pm

    Hello, Andrew Harrod. Thank you for bringing this Mr. Jonathan A. C. Brown to wider attention. I like him already, especially his self-deprecatory ironic sense of humor in writing “to use ‘the Muslim Brotherhood’ in the same sentence with Isis, terrorism or extremism cannot be tolerated.”

    You describe J.A.C. “Jack” Brown as “Georgetown University’s Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization”. By “Chair”, I take it, you do not mean a piece of furniture, but rather Chairman. What is he chairman of? From his title, he is chairman of Islamic Civilization itself. This is a high honor indeed, beyond the status of your run-of-the-mill caliph.

    Judging from its self-description, Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding must be holding events for mutual understanding between these two religions, such as a Taqiyya and Trinity Night, where Christians attentively listen to a lecture on the ins-and-outs of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, and Muslims listen respectfully to a lecture on the subtleties of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

  16. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Here is Jonathan Brown’s–I wonder what his Muslim name is?–repulsive article “Slavery and Islam–part 1: The Problem of Slavery”:

    https://yaqeeninstitute.org/jonathan-brown/the-problem-of-slavery/

    In it, he pretends that the meaning of slavery is vague. Of course, there are a few fringe issues–debt slavery, human trafficking, indentured servitude, employer coercion–but there is no real confusion over what slavery is, and there *should be* no hesitation in condemning it in all its forms. Brown’s only point appears to be to gin up false complexity in order to whitewash slavery in Islam.

    At one point, for instance, he compares slavery in Islam *favorably* against marriage in modern America. He then goes on to sneer at the entire concept of freedom.

    That this is going on at a major American university is utterly appalling.

    If we want to see what slavery *really* looks like in Islam, all we have to do is look at those enslaved for generations in Mauritania; at Christians seized and enslaved in Sudan, and at Christians and Yezidi girls used and sold as sex slaves in the Islamic State.

    *This* is what the superficially civilized Jonathan Brown is paving the way for here.

  17. mortimer says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    Brown denies that Islam was born from a group of cut throats and highwaymen who got lucky.

  18. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    No self-respecting kafir should eat muslim food, it being halal and charging a fee for the ‘privilege’.
    Those who do are financially supporting jihad.

    • carlos danger says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 9:03 pm

      Free Hajji food is delicious. I’d go back for seconds, but good luck colllcting.

  19. Ian from Liverpool says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    I can never understand the mindset of a western convert to Islam but I do notice certain commonalities between them. Often quite dangerous ones, I hope Trump has these people investigated.

    • Sam says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 7:42 pm

      Trump can not do it all. He is fighting the most irresponsible people, liberals daily. Trump needs conservative help. Talk to your state reps to help him start fight against Islamic terror and liberal terror in the universities and the streets.

      What a sick nation we have become. We can not even called the enemy in public. Which is ISLAM

      • Joe McDonald says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 11:28 am

        Email to “dr” johnathon brown Feb10’17 georgtown U.
        Jesus vs muhamed is a perfect analogy for decent, civilized western society vs oppressive, chaotic, perverse, uncivilized islamic states.
        The last words of the bible:
        “Add to, or take away from, these words and you will suffer all the plagues & be cut from the flow of life”.
        And so muhamed deleted forgiveness, tolerance, equality, decency, and added perversion, violence, intolerance, gaybashing (you’re obviously gay, aren’t you worried a real muslm will roof toss you?), wife beating, child molesting (do you deny he abducted & raped a child?), mysoginy, subjugation and whatever else he felt he desired for his version of “scripture”.
        AND SO LOOK AT THE LOT OF ALL THE ISLAMIC CESSPOOLS: syria somolia sudan saudi libya afghan iran iraq yemen pakistan…
        all just blessed places to live, especially if you’re a 9yr old girl!!!
        Mr Brown, you are the biggest moron I’ve ever heard in my life.
        Thank God DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP is in power, hopefully you will soon be arrested for treason.
        The Moral Majority has awakened and have no tolerance for your “shariaDiahrea” in God’s Blessed America.
        If you like islam & muhamed so much, why don’t you go live in libya or somolia? Oh no, you won’t do that, will you…
        You aren’t even a real muslim, just a coward hypocrite spewing out nonsense.

      • Joe McDonald says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 8:04 pm

        Outlaw oppressive evil regimes like the saudi zealot/perverts from subverting our society by investing in our universities!
        Stop the subversion at its rotted roots.
        Now there’s a law PRESIDENT Trump can enact without challenge!
        That’s why this brown moron is spouting his feces…. He’s getting PAID with saudi cash!!!!
        What a spineless, cowardly traitor!!

    • jasnanjack says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 7:50 am

      Western convert to Islam,………… these people are misogynist and they doubt the fidelity of women, they want to brutally punish women who commit adultery, thats their brutal driving force, like lions fiercely guarding their females but ready to take other females…………..pure breeding animal instincts

      • Joe McDonald says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 12:14 pm

        You are deeply insulting noble & majestic Lions!
        islamist molesters have no fierceness, only cowardly perversion.
        Even the Cowardly Lion had more honour than jihadi paedophiles -at least he didn’t try to subjugate & molest Dorothy!
        Read the kuran while watching The Wizard of Oz…. You’ll be just as disgusted as always and do what I’ve done with every one of those blasphemous, heretical tomes I’ve ever gotten a hold of….

      • Joe McDonald says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 12:18 pm

        The burqa is psychological manipulation, mysoginy, subjugation.
        Forced by “cult-ural” norms, women soon become dependant on being invisible and then, duh, “willingly” wear it.
        Also: the burqa is a great way in a gaybashing “cult-ire” to hide the fact that your “wife” is actually a 10yr old boy!!!
        Sickening, perverse, twisted, hypocrites.
        The kuran is illegal hate speech, child pornography, counselling to commit treason and numerous other crimes (including child rape & beastiality!).
        BAN THE KURAN !!!!

  20. carlos danger says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    This termite and his associates are festering carbuncles on the arse of Georgetown University and the American Catholic Church. The religion he supports must keep moving like a shark, or it will die. Islam is too stupid to live without authoritarian dweebs like Brown

  21. Wang Weilin says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:46 pm

    Maybe if you bring your own food next time Mr.Brown will let you stay. I suggest a ham sandwich w/bacon.

  22. David Pimentel says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 8:08 am

    “Islamic Civilization” … a perfect oxymoron if nothing else.

  23. Tjhawk says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 10:33 am

    I think we should have stealth antijihadists at as many dawa events as possible. The smiling warriors should load up on all the food and drinks available. Take as many free Korans as they will give you. Take all the pamphlets.

    • Joe McDonald says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 11:48 am

      The burqa is psychological manipulation, mysoginy, subjugation.
      Forced by “cult-ural” norms, women soon become dependant on being invisible and then, duh, “willingly” wear it.
      Also: the burqa is a great way in a gaybashing “cult-ire” to hide the fact that your “wife” is actually a 10yr old boy!!!
      Sickening, perverse, twisted, hypocrites.
      The kuran is illegal hate speech, child pornography, counselling to commit treason and numerous other crimes (including child rape & beastiality!).
      BAN THE KURAN !!!!

    • Joe McDonald says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 11:59 am

      kurans make perfect clay pigeons.
      They are NOT suitable for toilet paper, the world’s most festering anus deserves better than to be accosted with such abrasive nonsense.
      I am printing self adhesive urinal decals with the “pervert prophet”, filthy finger raised, rotted mouth agape with blasphemy & heresy!

      • Tjhawk says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 4:05 pm

        I still think that antijihadists should take all the food and korans they can get their hands on so the dawa people will have to pay to replace them. I don’t care what happens to the korans after they are taken.

  24. Joe McDonald says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    It is time to file a class action lawsuit (and filing of criminal charges for production, distribution, & counselling to commit crime) to have kurans made illegal (child pornography, hate speech, counselling to commit genocide, treason, domestic assault, child abduction & molestation, human trafficking, beastiality, assault, religious persecution, gross human rights abuses, and on & on).
    At the very least have kurans Edited & Censored to remove the parts that break the criminal code of our ethical & decent society.
    Caught with an unedited kuran (and unwilling to renounce it in a public broadcast)? Deportation if not born here, or if a citizen then permanent imprisonment under “dangerous offender status” and as an “enemy of the state”.
    GOD BLESS DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! and God Bless the moral majority of true American Heroes who voted for him!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 6:19 pm

      If Qur’an ownership were criminalized the first people jailed would be Anti-Jihadists trying to educate themselves and others about the threat of Islam.

  25. bouboulina says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    J. Brown = delusional twerp–why oh why does Georgetown keep him on board? Oh, that’s right, Georgetown lost its roots & lost its way quite some time ago.

  26. Carmel says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    In a case like Brown’s one , one must always look where is the woman ?

    I’m not surprised he had noticed Muhammad strategy: sometimes having a fast reaction , other times , waiting etc… Cowards always analyse whether they are in a position of power or not before repliking . So Brown’s is a slleping volcano. The day he has his chance , he will explose. In fact , too, he is only a very frustrated man since his early years in this life that uses islam to evacuate the pressure . He is a Presto pressure cooker and islam is his valve. For now .

  27. Dansplace says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    I just have one question…….How many muslim countries would welcome Christian and Jewish refugees with open arms and hundreds of millions of dollars in relocation benefits that America is or has been doing for years?…..Please don’t hand me this “Peaceful Muslim” B.S until thing have changed in your founding homelands and your core belief ducument the “Quran”!

  28. gary fouse says

    Feb 11, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    “things that I had believed my whole life; the nature of God, the idea of reason, the idea that reason and religion are supposed to be compatible, religion should enhance your life, not make it difficult and not make you suffer.”

    So he became a MUslim. Doesn’t sound very reasonable to me.

    But this is what you meet in academia-especially the Middle East studies types.

  29. Guy S says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 5:21 am

    OK, so as per an article, the comments which are below with quotes, I would like the Professor to deliver a talk on the merits of necrophilia, after all Moslems are enjoined to emulate the life of Mohammad. (If you don’t believe this, look it up….http://www.fisheaters.com/forums/index.php?topic=2599784.0)

    And at one point in the talk, Brown appeared to suggest that modern Muslims have little room to question the morality of slavery since Muhammad was a slave owner.

    “The Prophet of God had slaves. He had slaves. There’s no denying that,” he told a man during the Q&A session. “Was he — are you more morally mature than the Prophet of God? No you’re not. I’ll answer your question for you.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/11/islamic-georgetown-prof-offers-tortured-defense-of-slavery-and-non-consensual-sex-under-islam-video/#ixzz4YSrB2n6P

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