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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:43 AM
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Amnesty International's women's officer resigns due to Amnesty's promotion of theocracy
Amnesty Prefers Jihadists to Feminists

Gita Sahgal, its women's officer, has finally decided to resign. In her resignation statement she says that Amnesty remains unconcerned that its poster boy Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee, is now involved with an organisation called Cageprisoners which has championed the views of jihadists. Amnesty has persuaded itself that Islamism is not objectionable as long as it does not threaten civilians. As theocracy can be nothing other than the suppression of civilians, their self-persuasion took some doing. Neverthless as Gita says, "They have stated that the idea of jihad in self defence is not antithetical to human rights; and have explained that they meant only the specific form of violent jihad that Moazzam Begg and others in Cageprisoners assert is the individual obligation of every Muslim." Amnesty is playing the sly liberal's get-out-of-jail card: a one-sided cultural determinism. Jihadism is a part of "Muslim" culture, says Amnesty, so we cannot criticise it, indeed we must promote it. Yet if the head of a pro western intelligence agency were to say that colonialism was part of his cultural inheritance, Amnesty would condemn him as a racist.
Full article: http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2917
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:46 AM
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1. There's another agenda to this story as I agree with Amnesty with regard to the following tenet:
Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 09:49 AM by ShortnFiery
"Amnesty has persuaded itself that Islamism is not objectionable as long as it does not threaten civilians."

The Jesuits of my faith (Catholicism) have what might be considered Jihad too. Well, they're the sub-group who are the most practical and often times most active with regard to social justice issues. :shrug:

They are, IMO, beautiful souls. I would never pass muster to be a good Jesuit.

http://www.jesuit.org/old/SocialJustice/default.aspx
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:12 AM
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2. Well, since you're a woman...
... your comment about never "passing muster to be a good Jesuit" is a moot point, isn't it.
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