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Ten good reasons why Amnesty International is a credible voice when it comes to terrorism.
Founded in 1961, Amnesty built a formidable reputation for supporting individual prisoners of conscience, who were non-violent. While some in the worldwide group still do some good work, sadly Amnesty has lost direction, often supporting misogynists, homophobes & terrorists.
In 2010, Gita Sahgal, then head of the organization's gender unit, was fired for exposing Amnesty's shameful ties & support for Britain's most famous Taliban advocate, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Supporting terrorists has been a recurring theme with Amnesty. In 2015, a senior employee of Amnesty International was found to have undeclared private links to men alleged to be key players in a secretive network of global Islamists, revealed The Times. thetimes.co.uk/article/amnest…
Christopher Hitchens wrote that Amnesty’s actions backing the Taliban & against whistleblower & gender unit chief Gita Sahgal exemplified the organization’s “degeneration and politicization,” reflecting “a moral crisis that has global implications.” slate.com/news-and-polit…
In 2015 Amnesty's speaker called the 9/11 attacks “sweet revenge.” He said Europe made “the cult of the Holocaust & Jew-worshiping its religion” & he labeled gays “AIDS-spreading faggots.” Part of Hezbollah, he questions the existence of Nazi gas chambers. tabletmag.com/scroll/195521/…
Amnesty backed the pro-Taliban group "Cage," which promotes an ideology that mocks the values of tolerance—especially towards women. Amnesty took research from them, shared logos, co-produced briefing papers & co-signed letters to the government. economist.com/britain/2015/0…
Rights backer Sigrid Rausing criticized Amnesty for "blurring" its original mission. The Economist: "A group which devotes more focus to rights abuses in Britain & America than those in Belarus & Saudi Arabia cannot expect to escape doubters' scrutiny." economist.com/international/…
In 2015 Amnesty justified hosting an anti-gay Holocaust denier to protest Islamophobia—due to "the significance of this issue" & as it "was not an endorsement of any of the views of the individual speaker." Yet in 2018 they saw fit to ban London's Jews. theguardian.com/world/2018/jan…
Former Amnesty prisoner of conscience @MaajidNawaz lamented the NGO's fall: "If ever there was proof that the regressive left rot is spreading into the core of our liberal culture, look how it has politicized this once bright beacon of human rights." blogs.timesofisrael.com/human-rights-a…
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