Amnesty?s Absurdity

June 06, 2005

Below are portions of the article by Anne Bayefsky from National Review Online

Amnesty International?s deliberate use of the word ?gulag? to describe U.S. actions at Guantanamo should not have been a surprise. [For all who were surprised - they have not been watching Amnesty International] As has been widely reported, Irene Khan, the secretary general of Amnesty, used the description in the foreword to the organization?s 2005 annual report. According to Khan, ?The detention facility at Guant?mo Bay has become the gulag of our times?.? It is only the latest in a multi-year slide by the organization away from universal human-rights standards toward a politicized and anti-American agenda.

International human-rights organizations, with Amnesty at the helm, have cast the war on terror on one side and protection of human rights on the other. The preferred phraseology in U.N. lingo is ?the protection of human rights while countering terrorism.? Mere lip service is paid to the rights violated by terrorism: There are no detailed global reports emanating from Amnesty International on the abominations of terrorists. Searching Amnesty?s website for ?terrorism? elicits 25 reports ? all on violations by those combating terrorism.

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Amnesty International?s spokesman, William Schulz, responded this past week to criticism of the Soviet ?gulag? comparison by saying, ?The administration never thinks Amnesty International is absurd when we criticize Cuba, China, North Korea?? In other words, the fact that Amnesty is quoted sometimes means the group should be above criticism always. This is the arrogance of an international human-rights organization ? and they are not alone ? that for years has operated without serious accountability. How sad that the strengths of a major civil-society organization have been progressively diminished by overreaching, ever-increasing claims of expertise, and an irresponsible belief in their infallibility.

While claiming to be a group for the rights of ALL humans - Amnesty refuses to confront that which is becoming more and more clear to many:

Islam is not a religion of peace.  The Koran clearly and viciously violates all humanitarian laws that Amnesty International claims to be representatives of.

008.067 It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war [slay them] until he hath thoroughly subdued the land. [Treason - in all non-Muslim nations]

008.039 And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere. [Throughout the earth} 004.101 ]

005.051 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors {authorities]: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

009.030 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; in this they but imitate what  ''' the unbelievers '''  of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!

009.123 O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you.

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers in fight, smite at their necks. [Behead them!]

033.061 They shall have a curse on them: whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy.

If Amnesty International wants to be king of the 'humanitarian world' ?

then let Amnesty - put into action what they themselves preach for others to abide by - and confront the obvious cause of all Islamic 'terrorism' - the teachings of the one and only prophet of Islam.

Until then - [because they have taken upon themselves such a grave responsibility] they will continue to have blood upon their hands.

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