Human Rights Watch says the US can no longer claim to defend human rights abroad if it practises abuses itself. Statement from Human Rights Watch:

Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.

We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.

We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. [How much power does 'allah' hold?]

004.101 When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers May attack you: For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.

004.092 Never should a believer kill a believer [But the 'unbelievers' - they are commanded to slay. That includes ALL who believe in the Son of God} 009.030 ]

009.004 (But the treaties are) not dissolved with those Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently failed you in aught, nor aided any one against you. So fulfil your engagements with them to the end of their term.

009.005 But when the forbidden months are past [when the 'treaties' expire}  then fight and slay the Pagans ''''wherever'''' ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing [war] which is good for you and that ye love a thing [peace] which is bad for you?

009.039 Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.

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

How many have been slaughtered because of those teachings? [MANY]

Why hasn't the Human Rights Watch group investigated the commands of Islam?

It urges the creation of an independent US commission to examine prisoner abuse at Iraq's US-run Abu Ghraib jail.

Where was Human Rights Watch - while Saddam and his regime were filling well over a hundred mass graves?

Washington is currently investigating alleged abuses at that facility and at its jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

At what point did Saddam EVER investigate such allegations of horrid reports from those fortunate enough to have escaped Iraq?

'Defiance'

HRW says the US can no longer claim the moral high ground and lead by example.

Is HRW claiming they are any better?

Then why haven't they spoken up about the Koran's command to behead the 'Unbelievers' ???

It cites coercive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib jail as particularly damaging.  {Not as damaging as a god who commands millions of followers to behead all who don't bow to him]

The group, the largest US-based rights organisation, says the actions of the US in such detention centres have undermined Washington's credibility as a proponent of human rights and a leader of the war against terror.

What credibility can Human Rights Watch claim if they refuse to condemn the discriminatory murderous commands of the Koran?

009.029 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

009.005 fight and slay the Pagans ''''wherever'''' ye find them {That is MURDER!]

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks. {That is VICIOUS beyond words!!!]

What part of those commands - is the Human Rights Watch group having trouble understanding?

"Its embrace of coercive interrogation [is] part of a broader betrayal of human rights principles in the name of combating terrorism," HRW says. {Not as broad as the Koran is]

The group calls for the Bush administration to set up a fully independent investigative commission, similar to the 9/11 Commission, to look into the Abu Ghraib allegations.

Could it be? - the Bush administration is too busy investigating the 'Oil for Food' corruption? And if corrupt in that program - what other U.N. programs are corrupt?

What is the Human Rights Watch input on the matter?

It also urges a special prosecutor to be appointed to determine what went wrong and to hold those responsible to account.

Last August, an independent commission came to the conclusion that the American soldiers who ran the Iraqi jail were mainly to blame.

Trials of a group of soldiers accused of being at the heart of the Baghdad prison scandal are under way at a military court in Texas.

Last week the US defence department announced a new investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay.

'Inaction'

However, according to the report, the impact of the abuse scandals has already seriously damaged the US's role as champion of human rights, reverberating worldwide. {While mass rape and murder under the Saddam regime - obviously was acceptable to this world]

When the US classified what was happening in Sudan's Darfur region as genocide it was immediately accused by the country's government of using Darfur as part of "a global American assault on Islam and Arabs", the report notes.

HRW criticises the US and other Western powers for handing the situation to the relatively inexperienced African Union.

How much blame can be assigned to the HRW group? They certainly have a voice - which they use regularly. But NOT for condemning the cause of such injustices!

"The situation cries out for the involvement by major military powers but they have chosen to be unavailable," the report says.

"Continued inaction risks undermining a fundamental rights principle: that the nations of the world will never let sovereignty stand in the way of their responsibility to protect people from mass atrocities," HRW concludes.