Georgetown Islamic studies professor: Slavery is Moral, Rape is Normal
IPT News in a column titled “Prof’s Slavery/Sexual Consent Comments Become Georgetown’s Latest Outrage” reports:
A Georgetown University Islamic civilization professor’s lecture on slavery, asserting that it isn’t “morally evil to own somebody” and minimizing the need for sexual content from a spouse is bringing the school renewed criticism and scrutiny.
Jonathan Brown’s remarks came last week during a lecture at the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), an organization Brown works closely with, and one that law enforcement has long suspected of being a Muslim Brotherhood front.
People obsess too much over the word “slavery,” Brown said, when what matters are the conditions, whether people were treated well or harshly.
In fact, “I don’t think you can talk about slavery in Islam until you realize that there is no such thing as slavery,” he said. “As a category, as a conceptual category that exists throughout state and time trans-historically, there’s no such thing as slavery.”
Brown is a Georgetown associate professor and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service.
These comments support Islam’s view of slavery and dominance over women.
David Wood discusses the issue of slavery in Islam in his video “The Islamic View of Black Slaves.”
For more on slavery in Islam, be sure to watch “Muhammad: The White Prophet with Black Slaves”
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