Liberal Muslim Georgetown Professor Lauds Slavery and Nonconcensual Sex
A white liberal professor at Georgetown University, who converted to Islam, gave a speech legitimizing rape and slavery. The group he was speaking to have strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. So, if you are a Black Lives protester, this should give you a hint about Muslims as opposed to President Trump. Trump doesn’t want to enslave you and Muslims keep mostly black slaves. And if you are a feminist, liberals only care if you get raped by a non -Muslim. Muslim rape is fine.
Jonathan AC Brown, who serves as director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown, gave his admittedly controversial speech on Tuesday at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Virginia-based group that has foundational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The websites Heat Street and The Daily Banter covered the talk, which was entitled “Islam and the Problem of Slavery.”
In the speech, and a subsequent question-and-answer session, Brown, a white convert to Islam, essentially downplayed the harshness of slavery in Islam. He also stated that American and Western society is “obsessed with the idea of autonomy and consent.”
Brown 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.
What’s the difference between someone who is captured in a raid in the steppes of Central Asia brought to Istanbul’s slave market, sold to an owner, who, by the way, might treat her badly, might treat her incredibly well. She’s going to bear him children. She’s going to be a free woman. She’s going to be the mother of his children. If he’s high status, she’s going to be high status. If he dies she might be a very desirable wife. That person’s situation? What’s the difference between that and some woman who’s a poor baker’s daughter who gets married to some baker’s son without any choice because no one expects her to have any choice? And that baker’s son might treat her well. He might treat her horribly.