I never bothered reading Gita Saghal’s latest complaint about Amnesty until now. A shame, because it contains this gem.
Their programmes of social control such as promotion of the hijab are supported quite uncritically. The actions of human rights advocates mirror those of governments from Chechnya to the UK. Recruit former insurgents or fundamentalists and subcontract them to provide surveillance and control over the mass of the population. Defeat one form of fundamentalism by supporting another.
I must admit that I hadn’t bothered much about Amnesty International’s comprehensive surveillance network of former fundamentalists; perhaps because I was distracted by Oxfam’s fleet of flying killer robots. Via.
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