Monday, March 18, AD 2024 11:14pm

Jesuitical 20: Georgetown Prof on Slavery and Rape

 

 

Part 20 of my ongoing survey of the follies of many modern day Jesuits. A Georgetown Professor assures us that slavery and rape isn’t so bad as long as the slavers and rapists follow the religion of peace.  Rod Dreher gives us the details:

 

An academic reader writes:

This news item stands out if only because — at last! — reality beats Houellebecq. Who’d a thunk? Or maybe Houellebecq was prophetical in his novel, “Soumission”.

What’s he talking about? News that Jonathan Brown, a tenured Georgetown professor and holder of the Al-Waleed bin Talal Chair in Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, has delivered a lecture defending slavery and rape non-consensual sex. Umar Lee, a Muslim who heard the lecture and was offended by it, posted about it here. He wrote:

While the lecture was supposed to be about slavery in Islam Brown spent the majority of the lecture talking about slavery in the United States, the United Kingdom and China. When discussing slavery in these societies Brown painted slavery as brutal and violent (which it certainly was). When the conversation would briefly flip to historic slavery in the Arab and Turkish would slavery was described by Brown in glowing terms. Indeed, according to Brown, slaves in the Muslim World lived a pretty good life.

I thought the Muslim community was done with this dishonest North Korean style of propaganda. Obviously not. Brown went on to discuss the injustices of prison labor in America and a myriad of other social-ills. Absent from his talk (until challenged) was any recognition of the rampant abuse of workers in the Gulf, the thousands of workers in the Gulf dying on construction sites, the South Asian child camel-jockeys imported into the United Arab Emirates to race camels under harsh conditions, or the horrific conditions of prisoners in the Muslim World (the latest news being 13,000 prisoners executed in Syria).

Brown constructs a world where the wrongs of the West excuse any wrongs (if he believes there are any) in the Muslim World.

“Slavery wasn’t racialized” in Muslim societies, Brown stated. That would be believable if it weren’t well-known black people in the Arab World and African-Americans in this country weren’t constantly referred to as abeed (slaves) simply because the color of the skin.

Brown described slavery in the Muslim World as kinder and gentler. The Arab poet who wrote “before you buy the slave buy the stick… for he is nejas (impure)” is perhaps a better description of Arab slavery than what Brown offered.
“Slaves were protected by shariah (Islamic Law)” Brown stated with no recognition of the idealized legal version of slavery and slavery as it was practiced. In this version of slavery there is an omission of kidnappings, harems, armies of eunuchs, and other atrocities.

Read the whole thing. Umar Lee is furious.

 

Go here to read the rest.  I am sure that the Jesuits who run Georgetown, and rightly so, would sooner chew ground glass than have a tenured professor who would defend American slavery as being not so bad and the rape of slave women by their masters as being a form of concubinage.  However, when it comes to Islam most leftists, and most Jesuits are certainly leftists, engage in a mendacious effort to hear no evil, speak no evil and say no evil.  If that means giving a tenured professorship, paid by Arab oil money, to a lying apologist for Islam, so be it.

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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sunday, February 12, AD 2017 7:14am

A few days ago I had a similar but brief discussion with a spoiled brat narcissistic millennial feminist who, having once styled herself as “healthy fit goddess” (but yet insisting that she is a refugee from central Europe while jet setting around the world) asked me if I was asserting that there is no maltreatment of women in business within the US. I responded, “Not within my industry. What about yours?” We work in the same industry though we are unacquainted with each other, and in that industry abusing women can and will get you fired (unless you are former NRC Chairperson like Gregory Jackzo appointed by Obama in 2010 – then the rules are different). She, being a part of public relations, dared not respond for otherwise she would defame the very business and industry of which she is a member and unwilling to do that was she. I went on with the following link, knowing that she had proudly bragged about having once visited Iran and how wonderful the Iranian Republic is:

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/men-in-charge-of-women.aspx.

Of course she didn’t respond. Like most narcissists in the West, she knows neither the Koran (that book of iniquity and depravity) nor the real history of Islam (raping, pillaging and blood-shedding its way through 1400 years of human history). For her, history started at her birth if not her breakfast.

Liberal. Progressive. Feminist. Democrat. Narcissist.

The five most vile words in the English language.

Dick the Butcher
Dick the Butcher
Sunday, February 12, AD 2017 8:28am

Truth: Ask any savant furiously running through the streets screaming “Refugees welcome!”

Islam means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”

The Christian Teacher
The Christian Teacher
Sunday, February 12, AD 2017 4:51pm

This being taught here in the US makes me so angry that I could probably get violent over it. We have Islamic studies at more than one university here in my state. I have brought their promotion of slavery of women up several times & no one wants to touch it.

Clinton
Clinton
Monday, February 13, AD 2017 12:45am

In 2003, Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Senior Council of Clerics,
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, had this to say about Islam and slavery:
“Slavery is a part of Islam… slavery is a part of jihad, and jihad will remain
as long as there is Islam… (those who argue that slavery has been abolished are)
ignorant, not scholars, they are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel.”

Christine
Christine
Monday, February 13, AD 2017 2:44am

Aside from the ‘arabs’ being the major players in the transatlantic slave trade, I found some other least known facts horrifying. The rowers in the Ottoman ships at the Battle of Lepanto were Christian galley slaves. They were captured in previous conquests. Or the elite Ottoman infantry, the Janissaries, who were slaves and Christian boys taken from their families to be trained strictly into loyal soldiers & bodyguards. Imagine your son being taken from you, a dhimmi, to be raised to fight against your own people. We have a modern day example-Kayla Mueller- who was made the sex slave of Jihad John. She is one of thousands of Christian & Yazidi captured for sex slavery- which is perfectly acceptable in Islam.
The harems- full of captive sex slaves, and wives, guarded by eunuch slaves, are the separate part of a muslim household devoted to one man. This is all acceptable.
To go back to my first least known facts- google transatlantic slave trade and you will have to search for a reference to where all the slaves came from- who was selling them. Very one-sided.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Monday, February 13, AD 2017 3:06am

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, February 13, AD 2017 7:34am

Saudi Arabia is the home and treasury of Wahhabism, a most aggressive, violence species of Islamic terrorism.

Islam is exactly like all the other religions as long as you refuse to learn about it and don’t get murdered by it.

Here’s the Truth, all you need to know about Islam. It’s a religion of peace and love only for Muslim males, not for kaffirs (lower than Jews in Nazi Germany), Muslim women, and kaffir women (lowest). Everything beautiful in the Koran is reserved for the “House of Islam/Peace” Muslims; everyone outside Islam is in the “House of War/desultory, eternal war.” There may exist good Muslims. Are they shamming friendship and toleration until . . . ? Remember, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” – John Milton

Art Deco
Art Deco
Monday, February 13, AD 2017 12:30pm

Saudi Arabia is the home and treasury of Wahhabism, a most aggressive, violence species of Islamic terrorism.

Saudi foreign policy is, for the most part, a drab Machivellian affair. Since 1924, they’ve never participated in any war bar a supporting role in the 1st Gulf War and supporting roles in counter-insurgency programs in neighboring countries (i.e. Oman and Yemen). They passed subsidies to insurgencies (contra the Soviets in Afghanistan) and have paid some protection money to the PLO. They have cultural programs (e.g. financing mosques abroad) which are an irritant. They’re basically a status quo power and not much of a threat to anyone.

Patricia Parente
Wednesday, February 22, AD 2017 12:23pm

Malachi Martin opened my eyes about the Jesuits.Everyone should read him.

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