Ayaan Hirsi Ali hounded out of Holland

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is to resign from the Dutch Parliament and move to the United States. She has had a couple of tough years and has now been turned on by the Dutch people themselves.

Two blows have felled her. The first was the ruling by a Dutch court which upheld a complaint by her neighbours that her presence in her apartment was putting them in danger, and which gave her four months to leave her home. This was the first victory for terror, inflicted by a Dutch court. The second came last week, when a Dutch TV programme broadcast as a ‘revelation’ the fact that Ms Hirsi Ali had told lies when she had applied for asylum back in 1992.

Ms Hirsi Ali has never denied that she told lies on her application for asylum. The lies involved a false surname, a false age, and saying that she had fled from Somalia. This was in itself true, but omitted the fact -- which is salient to an asylum claim -- that she had landed up in various other countries before coming to the Netherlands. Of course, this was wrong, and she shouldn’t have done it. However, the fact that she was a refugee from Islamist oppression was true.

More pertinently, she has frequently acknowledged that she told these lies and even informed the leadership of her party, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, when she first stood for parliament. At no stage, however, did the Dutch authorities which knew about this ever take any action against her. Now, however, a TV program has strangely broadcast the story of her asylum application as if it were a new and shocking development.

What is shocking has been the response. Instead of people saying that this was already well known, the ‘revelation’ has been treated as a major scandal. The Dutch media has been engulfed by a feeding frenzy of outrage against Ms Hirsi Ali. The Dutch immigration minister is now ‘investigating’ the legality of her status. To say it again: her behaviour at the time was wrong. But the fact is that the vast majority of Dutch asylum claims, it is said, are made on the basis of falsehoods of one kind or another; yet it is only Ms Hirsi Ali who is being singled out for this treatment.

The persacution of this woman exhibits dhimmitude and something else as well. Cowardice. There is a history here. Of the 150,000 Jews deported from Amsterdam, including the remants of the Sephardic exodux from Spain c 1500, it was easy pickings from the standpoint of the Nazis. This was no Sweeden. This was no Denmark. It was not even a France . . . where the population was split. This was a land the Col. Eichman found easy pickings with lots of help from the population. And the collaborationist tendancies were not based on simple hatred of Jews or some type of collusion with historic Catholic sentiment as the case of Poland could be construed. This was cowardice. Turn your neighbor over and the threat to us will be over. Those dirty Jews in the attic: get rid of them, call the Germans.

And now the worm has turned, hasn't it, but old habits die hard. Now, there is no Nazi menace to be cuddled to, and there are no, or few, Jews left. But there is a growing Muslim population, that will hate your way of life, your fading museums, your Churches, your Christian Faith, your theological implications of faith, salvation and turning the other cheek, your liberalism, your drugs, your secularism, your socialist sloth.

No, they will hate you no matter how many Jews you threw to the wolves over sixty years ago, no matter how you turn on Israel, no matter how strongly you protest against Bush, AND NO MATTER HOW MANY WOMEN LIKE THIS ARE OUTED, THROWN OUT OF YOUR HOUSE, DISGRACED, THROWN OUT OF PARLIMENT.

Shame on you. Perhaps you in the Netherlands can sit back, smoke some dope, and let in more of the hordes. Yes, perhaps the Netherlands and the Muslims deserve one another. Sad. Perhaps a match made up above. Poetic justice. Yes, you can savage this brave woman, kick her out, but you have much, much more to repent of before you curry favor with your Muslim masters.