Sunday, February 7, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Amnesty International is 'damaged' by Taliban link - 'A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims. Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at Amnesty’s international secretariat, believes that collaborating with Moazzam Begg, a former British inmate at Guantanamo Bay, "fundamentally damages" the organisation's reputation. In an email sent to Amnesty's top bosses, she suggests the charity has mistakenly allied itself with Begg and his "jihadi" group, Cageprisoners, out of fear of being branded racist and Islamophobic...'
It's shocking only if you imagine it wasn't intentional.
This is really pretty outrageous.
Here are a couple more links, each including further links:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/02/06/amnesty-in-cageprisoners-row-dynamite/
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/02/07/statement-by-gita-sahgal-on-amnesty-international-and-cageprisoners/
The situation is worsened by the fact that Gita Sahgal has been suspended.