If the headline read Western Europe, I’d agree with you. But that’s not what it says.
A great many people refugeed out of every Communist country, and many of them went to USA, Australia, etc. Even more would have fled given the opportunity.
Pieter Dorsman, who just wrote a Pajamas Media article on this, also refers to Hirsi Ali as “a refugee once more - this time from western Europe.” See http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/10/the_end_of_an_affair.php.