Posted on 05/15/2006 2:07:59 PM PDT by Dark Skies
According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hirsi Ali will make a public statement announcing her resignation on Tuesday. The move allegedly comes as a result of disillusionment caused by recent reports taking a critical look at her original entry into Holland in 1992. A television report aired last Thursday claimed that Hirsi Ali only received political asylum in the Netherlands because of false statements she made in her application.
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When Hirsi Ali applied for asylum, she claimed she was fleeing civil war-torn Somalia. But she had already long held refugee status in Kenya -- and she faced no danger in Germany, the country through which she travelled on her way to the Netherlands. Additionally, the TV report claimed, she applied for asylum using a fake name. Her actual birth name, the program claimed, was Ayaan Hirsi Magan.
The revelations aired by the television station aren't new. Four years ago, Hirsi Ali admitted that she had falsified her asylum application in order to escape a forced marriage. "Yes, I did lie to get asylum in Holland," Hirsi Ali told the Associated Press over the weekend. "This has been public knowledge since at least September 2002." Political opponents said Hirsi Ali should be kicked out of parliament and her citizenship status revoked.
Hirsi Ali became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1997 and has served as a member of the Dutch parliament in The Hague as a representative of the Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) since 2002.
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Hirsi Ali is also Reader's Digest's "European of the Year" for 2006.
Anything to advance the cause of freedom.
Welcome to the Land of the Free!
Yes, let's do run her for Secy of Defense or Homeland Security or something. Someone who really understands Islam and Europe today -- how refreshing.
"I've got an extra futon, she can move into my place. This woman is brave and hot. Anything to advance the cause of freedom."
I respect your self-less patriotism!
She has more insight and larger testicles (figuratively speaking) than any dirt-bag democrat and 50% of nominal Republicans.
Isn't she a lesbian? I thought I read that somewhere?
Dutch Liberals have had their sights on here for a while.
They finally got her.
I think you are correct.
Also she is for euthanasia, homosexuality and abortion... and she is coming to work at the AEI? Somehow I don't think this is going to work out well. Call me crazy but that doesn't sound quite right.
She supports euthanasia, homosexuality and abortion according to her website.
Um... while I think she is one tough cookie she isn't going to feel right at home in the American Enterprise Institute is she?
lol...at least you're honest, zarf. And I happen to agree.
No matter Ms. Ali's orientation...it would be fun to see her open up
a can of WhOOp-@$$ on the NOW about their relative silence on oppressed women
of the Islamic world.
Well, AFAIK, they (and Mavis Leno) have been pretty low-key since
Dubya and a few good men (and ladies) unshackled a lot of Muslimas.
I would imagine she was well vetted. And I also think the AEI fellers are assigned "portfolios" and I would imagine hers would be limited to "islam and related matters."
She's my kind of lesbian!
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