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Jonathan Brown, a professor at Georgetown University, is a living, breathing illustration of a great deal that’s wrong with academic life today. His public statements give the strong impression that he hates America and has contempt for those who live in it, or at least for those who aren’t on the far left. In fact, his hatred doesn’t stop with America alone; as a convert to Islam, Brown has allied himself with a force that has tried to destroy Western civilization for 1,400 years and has even enthusiastically embraced the most noxious aspects of that force, endorsing slavery, including the sex slavery of infidel women.
Given the state of the American intelligentsia, you’d expect such a man to become a cosseted and celebrated member of the academic scene, and you’d be right. Brown stands for so much that is not only un-American but anti-American, that it was inevitable that he would become a rising star on campus, despite the intellectual poverty of his actual output. And sure enough, Georgetown not only gave Brown tenure but made him chair of its Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Alwaleed bin Talal chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service.
Now, however, Brown appears to have crossed the line even for Georgetown. It would have been less surprising if university officials had made him president of the university after he called on the Islamic Republic of Iran to carry out a “symbolic strike” against a U.S. military base, but instead, against all expectations, Georgetown has actually placed him on leave and removed him as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Is sanity returning to American academia? Well, no. But this certainly is a welcome step in that direction.
Georgetown University interim President Robert M. Groves told a congressional hearing Tuesday: “Within minutes of our learning of that tweet, the dean contacted Professor Brown, the tweet was removed [and] we issued a statement condemning the tweet. Professor Brown is no longer chair of his department and he’s on leave, and we’re beginning a process of reviewing the case.”
Good start. Now: if Georgetown really wants to shake itself loose of the influence of all the Qatari and Saudi money it has raked in, it should revoke Brown’s tenure and fire him outright. Those who think that would be too harsh should consider Brown’s X post that started all the controversy….
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Taffy says
Georgetown did not act sua sponte out of the kindness of their hearts. They receive a half-billion dollars per year from the federal government in research grants from the NIH, major funding for student grants and loans, and believe it or not, they received grants for “Arab Studies” from the soon to be disbanded US Department of Education.
Having a jihadist on their faculty and doing nothing in response to his anti-US postings would jeopardize that money.
Wellington says
I think you’re right. As so often is the case, follow the money.
OLD GUY says
Sadly when the smoke blows away they will reinstate him and in the mean time he is probably on PAID leave.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
How will they purge all Qatari and other Arab money from our schools, when the latter ain’t getting much from students, despite the sky high fees? It’s time those colleges became a thing of the past, that students focused on skills jobs and serious R&D be left to interested companies and corporations
James Lincoln says
Consider this:
If Harris had won instead of Trump, nothing would’ve happened to Georgetown University Prof. Jonathan Brown.
Nothing.
Billy says
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, etc., Muslim Oil-Rich Countries, spend billions every year and 10 times even more than China to Islamize American Colleges and Universities. Muslims help fund the violent protests for ‘Palestinians’ on college campuses. Plus, Mr. Trump is encouraging further Islamization of America with Muslim lies and deceit as more Muslim investment enters the USA. Poor knowledge of supremacist, totalitarian Islam is another incompetent weakness of Donald Trump.
Andrew Blackadder says
Why do they have a convert to islam as a Professor at an important University teaching about islamic studies, since when do American youth have to learn about islamic studies as they is not going to help them when they graduate…
Im waiting for a Course in Christianity Studies in ANY islamic countries Universities…
muslims are playing Westerners for fools.