Posted on 05/16/2006 11:40:30 PM PDT by abu afak
Holland has for decades been celebrated, or notorious, as a land where anything goes, but now the Dutch have finally discovered that there are limits. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the courageous Dutch Parliamentarian who has drawn death threats for her outspoken criticism of women’s rights in Islam and unrestricted Muslim immigration into Europe, has resigned from Parliament and will leave the Netherlands. - Dutch immigration minister Rita Verdonk has brought this about by suddenly deciding to press the fact that the Somalia-born Hirsi Ali lied in her request for asylum in the Netherlands was grounds to strip her of her Dutch citizenship.
But why now? Hirsi Ali admitted that she lied in 2002, before she became a candidate for Parliament. That Verdonk suddenly decided four years later that the lies were intolerable bespeaks her zeal not for stringent immigration policies but for a way to rule Hirsi Ali’s politics out of the Dutch public discourse. One might think that, while no one can condone the lies she told, the death threats she has received since then could and would become the occasion for granting her refuge and citizenship on a firmer basis. For Hirsi Ali has paid an immense price for speaking out, as she put it in her resignation speech on Tuesday, about “issues related to Islam—such as impediments to free speech; refusal of the separation of Church and State; widespread domestic violence; honor killings; the repudiation of wives; and Islam’s failure to condemn genital mutilation.”
The fact that an adjusted granting of asylum is not under consideration unmasks Verdonk and her allies as craven, short-sighted political opportunists bent only on the destruction of a Cassandra who has told them too many unpleasant truths...."
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Ah yes, they finally find their spine... They evict an immigrant woman who question islamofascism. Remember me never to visit this God-forsaken country either.
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I hope we take her. And I hope she's safe here (I certainly wouldn't put it beyond these crazies to track her here).
I just got back from Holland last Friday. Brought back 2 pairs of wooden shoes.
They never did learn how to make shoes...
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