Amnesty International Attacks Democracies, Forgives Islamist Tyrannies

There is no other conclusion to be drawn from the behavior of this group called Amnesty International. The inmates have fully taken over the asylum.

Some organizations, perhaps Amnesty International, strart out with good intentions, but then become cash machines for opportunists. Amnesty is starting to have a history of incompetent management.

Amnesty International is nothing but a façade for a bunch of morons who depend of funding from any source to employ themselves in a industry they created for themselves- the human rights industry. Like any other, this industry is there for profit for those who operate it. These days the only people who want to fund these NGOs are terrorists- just like the other NGO, the UN, Amnesty speaks not for victims but for perpetrators of violence against humanity. I am glad Gatestone Institute speaks for the real victims- those that are victimised by jihadist violence. Something parallel was happening to Sri Lanka over the last 35 years. When the ruthless terrorist entity Liberation of Tamil Tigers of Eelaam (LTTE)which was fully funded by the global separatist Tamil terrorists, the Indian spy agency RAW and the Indian State, was terrorising the innocent people of Sri Lanka, killing hundreds through suicide bombs in public places targeting innocent school-children, women, the sick and infirm, this false protector of human rights did not utter a word about the rights of the dying citizens. However, Amnesty had a lot to say about the rights of the terrorists in all shapes, sizes and ages. It is well-documented that LTTE employed children as young as six in armed battle. To this day, Amnesty has plagued the recovery of post-terrorism in Sri Lanka via ugly, unsustainable accusations against Sri Lankan state and partnering like-minded organisations such as the UN calling for sanctions against Sri Lanka for the only crime of destroying the terrorist organisation's military capacity by exterminating the military leadership of LTTE. Just look at the funders of Amnesty and also of UN and also look at the names of key position holders of both the organisations and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out what they are out to achieve.

Is now "Islamists International"!

Amnesty International was once a worthwhile organization with significant moral influence. But that was long ago.

As your article points out, it has become nothing more than a leftist lobbying group celebrating jihadis and attacks on western nations.

Because Amnesty International still retains some vestigial remains of its former reputation, it is worthwhile to publish articles like this one, pointing out what Amnesty International has become, not what it once was.

AI has had a history of increasingly left-wing activism and wilful blindness to agendas which don't fit their narrow socialist worldview. Salman Rushdie's remark is six years old but carries even more weight today. They have identified over the years with characters most would call highly unsavoury and others - a few - heroic. With increased membership came an emboldening and a more overtly political stance to an already irritating thorn in the side of a number of governments.
If AI were to return to its roots, campaigning for legitimate human rights abuses such as detention without trial, state sponsorship of torture and so on, its pronouncements would carry more gravitas. As it is, their completely off-the-wall ravings including support of pro-Islamists and fictitious allegations have placed them outside the realm of most thoughtful people's political sphere. I rather hope that people just dismiss what they are currently saying as one might dismiss the opinions of the feeble minded, the easily led or those without critical faculty.

Does Amnesty receive donations from Saudi Arabia or Qatar? Could that be why they don't criticize human rights violations in Muslim countries?

What is missing from this analysis is the source of funding for this organization.

I suspect that the answer would have great explanatory power.

Can we get that information?

Thank you.

This behavior is very logical; it is basic psychology. It is because of self-protection and preservation. In western democracies one can criticize the government. There is (relative) freedom of speech and one doesn't have to be afraid of being prosecuted, sentenced or killed.
In Islamic countries on the other hand, freedom of speech does not exist. Criticism is not allowed. It is considered a criminal offence against the state or against the religion, which is all too often punishable by death, corporal punishment or long imprisonment.
And even Amnesty International activists do not want this for themselves, do they?

Sheesh. What planet are these folks inhabiting? Am going to research the outfit. Find out who and what they are. Am kind of liberal when applying Justice. True justice, and I for one, feel these folks are in outer space.

Time to cut off funding to these fools and send them packing. They have outlived their usefulness, but not their uselessness.

As a military officer who has deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan, I have always been perplexed by the AI double standards. Muslims can do anything - cut off hostages' heads, commit gross violations of the Law of Armed Conflict, and consistently commit offensive acts of war - and like the Tar Baby of the Old South, AI "Say 'nuffin." When our enemies allege wild and unsubstantiated claims of US, Israeli or Coalition Force misconduct, AI has a fit. When I personally offered to brief them on our actual ROE and Use of Force rules, they declined. AI obviously has an agenda to front Islamic and Marxists regimes: so long as they are opposed to Israel or the USA. They have zero credibility in my professional opinion and our governments, and media, need to stop giving them deference.

Amnesty International became a criminal organisation the day it decided to campaign for a woman to be allowed as of right to murder her unborn baby.

I have always felt that Amnesty International is very selective about its concerns. I see it is now worried about the lifestyle of the unwanted Africans ruining Italy. No one invited them in Europe. I suppose the explosive activities of the Islamics in the civilised West are not to be regarded as torture. It seems to be wrong when the Israelis defend themselves whilst surrounded by evil dictatorships.

I have a relative by marriage who is a temporary worker for AI. Like all these charities they waste donated money like water and she hates working there. She is a secretary, all the bosses are rude and arrogant, most come from third-world countries and have landed plum jobs for which they are overpaid.

Back when I was doing war crimes investigations (1999-2003), NGOs such as Amnesty International where used as source material. I soon quit using Amnesty, however, as it became apparent they were putting virtually no effort into verifying their own sources. Most of their material in Rwanda and the xYugoslavia were absolute tosh. They were simply chasing headlines and fund raising.

By contrast, other human rights NGOs at that same time were doing two layers of review. One layer was factual looking at source reliability and information credibility. The second layer was legal - to see if the crimes or actions committed actually rose to the level of what was being claimed (ie genocide, war crime, crime against humanity)

For Amnesty, we found that they used terms like "genocide" and "war crime" without any attempt at validation. Again, total tosh.

What has happened to our society, when a much applauded human rights charity, is infiltrated by extremists or dim witted uninformed dupes, and becomes the tool of the oppressor. At what point do people start to listen to the subtext and stop being influenced by these warped and biased headlines. Young people are being hoodwinked into supporting what they think is the underdog, when very often they are doing the exact opposite and fuelling the fire of unrest and inequality.
In their rush to make an apology for capitalism and colonialism, they become the puppets of a new and very scary future regime, that is the exact opposite of human rights and equality. Let us fight for freedom or we will loose it. Let us inform the new generation that democracy needs our trust, or we will end up with radical Islam and a doctrinaire leadership that cares not what we think.

Keep up the good work Gatestone Institute. The demonization of the good by those who wish to destroy our self confidence and belief is an affront to any civilized person.

Watching how AI has been captured by those who hate democracy is just dismaying. It extends much further than AI though. It goes through our universities and our media and even the social democrat parties, the police and now in the UK even the military.

It is a war that will never end but thank goodness there are individuals and organizations like yours gives me hope that good will ultimately prevail.

It is obvious that Amnesty has become a victim of 'soft-touch'-ism. This is the syndrome where one carefully pre-calculates what reaction there will be to your postures. Among free democratic institutions, very little. Therefore you can rise to your full bearing and accuse and fulminate to your heart's (in this case Amnesty's) content.
If you know what's good for you, you'll close a blind eye to real tyranny. It might react to you with a severe punch on the nose - or worse.
Does anybody remember what happened to Greenpeace in October 2013? They mistakenly thought (ha, ha) that Russia had become a democracy. They boarded a Russian ship. Their activists were accused of 'piracy' (15 years, jail) and 'hooliganism' (7 years). The 29 who were arrested all spent a worrying 3 months in jail. After this, no more Greenpeace,or Amnesty, activism against Russia.

Someone needs to delve deeply into the finances of "Amnesty International". One would suspect an Arab source is supplying some or most of the money to keep this organisation operating. I certainly hope no taxpayers are footing the bills for their betrayal of freedom of speech, because if Islam has it's wicked way it will stop all criticism of the so called "religion of peace".

I still chuckle to myself whenever I write "religion of peace" because it even sounds ridiculous and somehow just doesn't look right when written!
Those in AI who consider that all that matters now is Islam, need to rethink their positions and bang their heads against the nearest wall in order to knock some degree of common sense into their thick skulls, preferably do it extremely hard to make sure it works first time!

Has the whole world gone mad? The politicians have, that's a certainty. And a great many lefty liberal hand wringers have chewed their nails away in the hope that it's not the poor immigrant Muslims that are guilty of rape and crimes across Europe. According to them, the Muslims are misunderstood and confused by civilised life, and they don't understand that not everything is for free, and that means women!

But to AI the whole world looks rosy and everyone is going to live happily ever after. In their street anyway!

Time for a good old fashioned coup, get rid of the dross in AI and recruit people with some degree of sense! And if they are funded by taxpayers, stop it at once! We have enough enemies within our own countries, we don't need AI to aid them by being their mouthpiece!

UN, UNESCO, UNHRW/UNHRC, EU, Western governments, Amnesty International, Reuters, AP, CNN, BBC, schools & Universities etc.etc.etc.......all sold themselves to Islam!