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May 15, 2006
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me
[ UPDATE: Pieter Dorsman of Peaktalk will be talking about Hirsi Ali on this radio show 7 PM tonight, Calgary time. Here's a timeline of events since AHA returned from the US last week. Her own party is quite gratuitously retroactively removing her citizenship. It's a slimy mess of vicious party politics, dhimmitude, jealousy, and scapegoating. A nation of Ellsworth Tooeys. ]
Thrown to the wolves, but scooped up by the eagle. Their loss.
The American MSM continue to twist the story:
A storm erupted about her asylum application last week after a Dutch television documentary interviewed members of her family about her background. They said she had not been forced into an arranged marriage and had had nothing to fear.No mention that she acknowleged falsifying a few items on her asylum application when she first joined the Liberal Party, and it didn't bother them then. And the bland assumption that her family's version is the truth.Asked whether she had falsified her asylum application, Hirsi Ali told the programme she lied about her name, age and how she came to the Netherlands. The programme prompted calls for her to leave parliament and even be stripped of citizenship.
The reaction of the Reason crowd is curious. Hirsi Ali is a secular individualist who approvingly contrasts American immigrant entrepreneurship to the European welfare state, and strikingly beautiful and articulate; in short, a Randite's wet dream. I do not understand why they are trashing her and defending the political party who turned on her. Ayn must be spinning in her grave.
RELATED: According to Dutch blogger Peaktalk, the cultural clash is not just between Arab Islamists and European secularists:
. . . the Dutch right, and notably Hirsi Ali’s own liberal party (VVD) may have decided that it is time to get shot of her. Ayaan’s lies will now be the subject of a formal investigation by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, who as it happens is also part of the VVD and is in the middle of hotly contested leadership struggle (to be concluded later this month) in which she faces a more moderate and centrist candidate. So, if Verdonk’s aim is to gain control over the VVD she will have to not only make sure that by investigating Hirsi Ali she is living up to her ‘going by the book’ reputation, but she will have to placate her party’s more centrist members. . . .A bunch of Ellsworth Tooheys, they are.The other aspect that should be underlined here is the deep resentment that success and ambition usually generate in The Netherlands. Dynamic careers, success, outspokenness, standing out in the crowd are things that have always been frowned upon, although that has changed a bit in recent years I guess. Still, the Dutch coined the phrase “act normal, that is strange enough” and a very ambitious black Muslim woman who built up a spectacular political career with international allure by holding a mirror in front of the complacent and politically lethargic Dutch was of course not something that would be rewarded with eternal gratitude.
More from Peaktalk:
There were three musketeers in The Netherlands not too long ago, brave and unconventional free thinking individuals. Two have been murdered, the last one has now been expelled.The adventurous spirit of the Musketeers, the Sea Beggars, and the East India traders seems to be repudiated these days. I guess it's not politically correct.
Judith | 05/15/06 at 02:03 PM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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Let's hope no self-appointed assassin comes out of the shadows before she gets on the westward bound plane.
Jeremayakovka | May 15, 2006 06:19 PM
For goodness sake, let's hope someone suggests that if the Dutch are stupid enough to toss her that she comes here.
Alex Bensky | May 15, 2006 08:49 PM
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