Category Archives: Human Rights

How an “Imperialist” Schoolgirl Trashed A “Post-Colonial” Academic

By Faisal | Published: April 13, 2010
Alaina Podmorov is a 13 year old girl from Canada who started a humanitarian campaign for the education of girls and women in Afghanistan. She wrote this article in response to a masters’ thesis by the University of British Columbia’s Melanie Butler. This is a snippet from Alaina’s article: Continue reading >>
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A “Leading Human Rights Organisation” on Zionist Tentacles

By Guest | Published: April 13, 2010
This is a cross-post by habibi **** So Amnesty International is standing by Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners. Let’s have a look at a new article by Yvonne Ridley, published on Cageprisoners’ website. It provides another insight into the mentality of the Islamist outfit. Ridley is Cageprisoners’ patron, as well as a Hamas funder and a presenter [...]
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Amnesty Prefers Jihadists to Feminists

By Faisal | Published: April 12, 2010
It’s official. Amnesty International’s policy on human rights advocacy in Afghanistan or Pakistan encompasses your average jihadist’s right to wage “asymetrical resistance”. This means is that Amnesty has now decided that indiscriminate attacks by jihadists on their “enemies” which often includes the loss of life of innocent civilians is not antithetical to human rights. For [...]
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Gita and Amnesty Divorce

By Guest | Published: April 12, 2010
Well Gita Sahgal is out of Amnesty. Now that Amnesty has confessed that their support of jihadis is based on their advocacy of ‘defensive jihad’ as a human right, this was inevitable. But it is still shocking to see the collapse of a once principled human rights movement. The campaign is over but the struggle [...]
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Conor Foley on Amnesty, Begg and “Defensive Jihad”

By Faisal | Published: April 8, 2010
From the exchange of letters between Amnesty’s senior lawyer Claudio Cordone and the human rights lawyers Sara Hossain, Amrita Chhachhi and Sunila Abeysekera: Claudio Cordone says of Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners: Moazzam Begg is one of the first detainees to have been released from Guantánamo and to disclose information when much of what was going on in [...]
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Amnesty and the support of ‘Defensive Jihad’

By Faisal | Published: April 2, 2010
This is an excerpt from the response to Amnesty drafted by Amrita Chhachhi, Sara Hossain and Sunila Abeysekera: We believe that the question you raise in your letter as to whether the concept of ‘defensive jihad’ is antithetical to human rights, and your categorical statement that the response of Amnesty International to this question is ‘NO’, [...]
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“Defensive Jihad” Not Antithetical to Human Rights says Amnesty Imternational

By Guest | Published: April 2, 2010
The shocked response to this appalling statement by the Secretary General of Amnesty International has been released in a press release by Human Rights For All **** April 1, 2010 Response from Amnesty international to the global petition and a Response from the petitioners In a letter in response to the Global Petition to Amnesty International, the Secretary General of [...]
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Amnesty: Suppressing Dissent

By Faisal | Published: April 1, 2010
Last month, the Nation published an article by Guttenplan and Margaronis which sought to examine the Gita Sahgal-Amnesty-Moazzam Begg controversy. The problem with the article was that it was little more than a puff piece on Begg which is bad enough. But worse, it glibly skipped over any mention of Amnesty, excluding the organisation at [...]
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Can Human Rights be used to justify violence in the name of religion?

By Guest | Published: March 21, 2010
This is a guest post by Rina Sherman, a writer, ethnographer and filmmaker. **** In response to “Who Speaks for Human Rights?“, an article by D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis published in The Nation on March 18, 2010, with regards to the recent Amnesty International controversy opposing the ONG and their employee, Gita Sahgal, head of Amnesty’s gender [...]
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Gita Sahgal on NDTV

By Faisal | Published: March 17, 2010
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. [...]
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