{"id":1754,"date":"2010-04-04T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2010-04-04T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T06:59:58","slug":"friends_of_amnesty_internation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Friends Of Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sources for this article are an article at Power Line<\/a> yesterday and an article at Hot Air<\/a> yesterday.  Recently, Amnesty International suspended Gita Sahgal, one of its senior officials in London, for stating that the group’s collaboration with Moazzem Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee, is damaging to the reputation of the group.  <\/p>\n

According to Power Line:<\/p>\n

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“Sahgal pointed out that “to be appearing on platforms with Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban, whom we treat as a human rights defender, is a gross error of judgment.” (And worse, I would have thought)”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article further states:<\/p>\n

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“Following Sahgal’s suspension for criticizing Amnesty International’s alliance with Begg, supporters petitioned the organization on her behalf. That led to Cardone’s spirited defense of Begg. He argued that Begg advocates detainees’ due process rights within “the same framework of universal human rights standards that we are promoting,” Attempting to reconcile this extraordinary claim with Begg’s association with violent jihad, Cardone asserted that advocacy of “jihad in self defence” is not antithetical to human rights.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh my.  Hot Air states it a little more forcefully:<\/p>\n

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“In response to the petition, AI Secretary-General Claudio Cordone has issued a letter in vigorous defense of AI’s collaboration with Begg and Cageprisoners. Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism has the story, <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. In the letter, Cordone states AI’s position outright: advocacy of “jihad in self defence” is not antithetical to human rights. That Islamists reserve unto themselves the right to determine when Islam is, as they put it, “under siege,” and when, therefore, forcible jihad is justified, is plainly of no concern — only actions America’s self-defense are worthy of condemnation.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems as if Amnesty International has lost its way.  Human rights are totally in the eye of the beholder–murder may not be an abuse of human rights depending on who is doing it.  It is sad to see an organization that is supposed to support human rights condoning the murder of innocent people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sources for this article are an article at Power Line yesterday and an article at Hot Air yesterday.  Recently, Amnesty International suspended Gita Sahgal, one of its senior officials in London, for stating that the group’s collaboration with Moazzem Begg, a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}