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Amnesty International is a leftist organization that claims to care about human rights. They recently called the detention facility at Guantanamo “the gulag of our time.”

A bi-partisan commission who went to investigate, disagreed:

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) – “It was really an eye-opening experience. We found a well-run and well-organized camp. Everything we heard previously was negative, but what we saw was much different from what we had heard and read about.”

Reps. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), agreed that prisoners are not being mistreated, but said charges of abuse at the prison still harms America’s image at home and abroad.

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)”Throughout the entire detention camp, terrorists were given clothes and bedding. They are given Muslim prayer rugs and Korans. There are arrows everywhere pointing them to Mecca. We even witnessed a prayer call announcing to the terrorists that it was time for them to turn to Mecca and pray.”

Now Amnesty International is giving the thumbs up, to a film that promotes suicide bombing.

“Paradise Now” is a film that depicts two Palestinian Muslims who train to commit mass murder. In the film, one of them boards a bus filled with Jews and blows himself up, killing scores of people.

One could easily come to the conclusion that Amnesty International has given suicide bombing their stamp of approval. The question that everyone is asking is why would a group that purports to care about human rights give an award to a film that depicts and perhaps even promotes the violation of human rights in the form of mass murder?

If Amnesty International wants to be taken seriously as a group that truly cares about Human Rights, they need to stop making false claims about detention facilities and they must stop sympathizing with real or fictional acts of terror.