A Test for the Left

Will the human rights group Amnesty International stand by the jihadist or go with the whistleblower? TWS The Blog. The former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg vs. Gita Saghal, who went public after she was chastised by the group:

“I believe the campaign fundamentally damages Amnesty International’s integrity and, more importantly, constitutes a threat to human rights,” Sahgal wrote, according to the Times.

Sahgal added: “To be appearing on platforms with Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban, whom we treat as a human rights defender, is a gross error of judgment.”

Typical of a terrorist groups, the Taliban treats its own people as expendable, and are particularly cruel to women, barring them, even widows, from supporting themselves (which often forces them into illegal prostitution--guess who their customers are) the most recent evidence the horrific rape tape, which the group tried to suppress by murdering the girls after the crime.

There should be no question which is the side of human rights, but as we have seen, moral myopia is all too prevalent.