Protecting Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Charles Moore writes this in his Spectator Notebook:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives in daily danger of murder. Since she wrote the script for Submission, the film about Islamic abuse of women directed by the Dutchman Theo Van Gogh, she has been on Islamist death lists. When Van Gogh was stabbed in the street in Amsterdam, her name was mentioned on the note left pinned to his corpse.

If you look on jihadi websites, you can see invitations to anyone knowing her whereabouts to post them on the internet. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was spasmodically protected by the Dutch authorities, until the beginning of this month. Now, because she is in the United States and has a green card there, that protection has been withdrawn, even though she is still a Dutch citizen.

The Americans refuse to help, saying that such protection cannot be given to private citizens. Only the Danes have stepped forward, offering her a sort of cultural asylum. If you think about it, the Dutch behaviour is scandalous, the American scarcely less so. The authorities considered the threat to her life in the Netherlands there so great that they effectively confined her to a safe house. So a country that upholds free speech refuses, in practice, to defend it, and so makes it impossible for her to make a living there.

She is, in effect, a refugee — from a country which prides itself on looking after refugees. Next month, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will visit Britain as the guest of the think tank the Centre for Social Cohesion. Wouldn’t it be an earnest of our government’s commitment to human rights if it offered this brave woman the protection which would enable her to live here?

Quite right.

Comments

[alma fraik]

First disgusted thought is, we should have left Holland to the Nazis 62 years ago. The (modern, postmodern we*ll say)Dutch have gone down the same foggy, dark tunnel as the rest of Europe and allowed Holland to be inundated not with the sea but a huge mass of fanatic islamists and now they fear for their lives. I pray for this brave woman who has dared to tell the world the truth.

[Pam Woolaston]

The Times is a truly magnificent newspaper!

I am amazed that you have allowed this young woman to speak the truth about Islam when other newspapers dare not do this for fear of being deemed 'racist' by a small fringe of extreme left lunatics.

I feel sad for Holland, which did used to be one of the greatest European nations on Earth.

[Bugil]

pity this girl, lost her way and still fighting a losing battle with God and faith in Islam ...

[Lilly]

To find today, just after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, that someone here posted a comment above is both sad and worrying. World needs more people willing to speak up and ALL OF US must protect them!

[cewek telanjang bugl ngentot]

lol :)

[andrew]

whatta mess

[deja vu]

When I read in here ... "a guide to opinion in the web" this tells me "the ability to write my own thoughts" and "to be published whatever so"

I still can't see my article written here a week or more ago

With my respect sir

http://dejavupress.blogspot.com/2008/11/submission-to-allah-is-my-honor.html