This is the NDTV interview with Gita Sahgal. It is the most comprehensive account she has provided of her side of the Amnesty-Moazzam Begg-Cageprisoners controversy since it started more than a month ago.
Amnesty International have not distanced themselves from their position of partnering and giving platform to the ‘violent jihad’ doctrine advocated by Begg and Cageprisoners. If anything, they have climbed deeper into bed with Begg and have tightened their embrace of the jihadi “human rights” group.
Gita mentions briefly how Amnesty have changed their position from denying outright the accusation they endorse Begg’s political views and have turned 180 degrees. It is possible that Amnesty are now at the cusp of releasing a statement in which they justify the use of “defensive jihad” and do not consider it antithetical to human rights. If that is the case, this will be the unravelling of Amnesty.
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An extremely interesting, informed and well balanced comment on the whole affair by the ethnographer, Rina Sherman, here:
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/7492#comment-196591