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.
Sahgal describes Begg as “Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban”. He has championed the rights of jailed Al-Qaeda members and hate preachers, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the alleged spiritual mentor of the Christmas Day Detroit plane bomber.
I wonder if Amnesty International is also against the brutality toward women by the Taliban? I mean it doesn't take much to see how badly treated women when they were in power. I guess a Jihadi scumbag rotting in Guantanamo is more worthy of their attention then some 12 year girl in the Taliban held parts of Afghanistan.
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