“It looks very much as if Amnesty’s leadership is suffering from a
kind of moral bankruptcy, and has lost the ability to distinguish right
from wrong.”
Salman Rushdie wrote those lines in 2010 when he weighed in on the
controversy that erupted when Amnesty International (AI) fired, Girta Saghal, the much-respected head of its Gender Unit, for questioning the rights group’s ties to Moazzam Begg and the Cageprisoners,
a pro-Taliban group Begg founded. Saghal in a public statement
following her firing accused AI of not being troubled by terrorism and
of actually supporting jihadism as ‘the individual obligation of every
Muslim.’ Read more....
