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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Yes,sometimes you have to bend a bit.This lady will further expose Islam for what it is and keep their feet to the fire I hope.
She also supports the banning of a traditionalist Christian political party in Belgium, simply because it is a traditionalist Christian religious party, and seeks to remove ALL religious influence, whether Christian or Muslim, from Europe.
(Lawrence Auster has more on this on his blog, "View From the Right".)
Curious, isn't it, that all these allegedly conservative freepers are swooning over this radical leftist, simply because she is anti-Muslim?
We should keep in mind that the enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily my friend.
Well I was not saying she is my enemy but she is very liberal in a number of her views. I just don't see her fitting into a conservative think tank. I don't think it will last very long... of course she certainly could get a job over at jihadwatch.com
As a Dutchman I cannot possibly hide my bitterness about this disgraceful debate that has been going on in my country. It is an absolute disgrace that this woman has been more or less 'chased out'. Myself I am running out of reasons to stay. I hope I get that green card I applied for.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Seperation of Church and State, very American.
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