Re: Anti-Islam Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali exposed as a liar - made fake asylum case
Ayman Hirsi MAGAN is to be stripped of power and stripped of her nationality :yahoo:
This is a true case of “Who lives by the sword, dies by the sword”. She was in an anti-immigration party, and with her fraudulent asylum case being exposed, she has fallen victim to her own party’s anti-immigration stance.
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She is probably the most famous member of parliament in the Netherlands, an outspoken voice against the tyrannies of extremist Islam and a crusader for the rights of immigrants.
But, as of yesterday, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is no longer Dutch. And she is no longer a member of parliament.
She was a leading figure in a Dutch party that is opposed to Islamic extremism in Europe, a Somali-born Muslim who became an anti-Islamist dissident and who has spent the past two years under 24-hour police protection. But this week she fell afoul of her own movement’s stark opposition to immigration.
Yesterday she announced that she had been forced to quit the conservative VVD Party, and depart the Netherlands, after Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, a member of her own party, told her that she’d be stripped of her citizenship over falsehoods in her refugee application papers 15 years ago.
This news was greeted with shock and anger in the Netherlands yesterday. Ms. Ali, who had become a star in conservative politics for opposing what are seen by many Dutch as the excesses of multiculturalism, had become a dramatic victim of her own principles.
Yesterday, before stunned supporters, she denounced the decision.
“I have found freedom here, and here I have seized the opportunity to fight against religious terror. . . . But it has become impossible now,” she told reporters in The Hague yesterday, before surrendering her passport and, surrounded by admirers, taking a taxi to the airport to fly to the U.S. “This saddens me. . . . I leave, but the questions will remain.”
It is a tale of the stark polarities in European political life today. Ms. Ali, a household name in the Netherlands, was an outspoken defender of secular European culture against the threat of religious orthodoxy. She had fled the more oppressive aspects of her culture, she frequently said, to move to the relative safety of the Netherlands.
But she couldn’t escape: After she made a TV film with Theo van Gogh that offered a stylized depiction of the cruelty done to women by orthodox Muslim husbands, including scenes of a naked woman whose skin was etched with the text of the Koran, Mr. van Gogh was knifed to death by an Islamist gang member on an Amsterdam street in 2004. The slaying provoked a crisis in Dutch society. She was forced into hiding and has lived under police guard since then.
She has argued that the Dutch approach to multiculturalism, in which communities are kept isolated and encouraged to maintain the culture of their homelands, prevents immigrants from integrating and gives tacit approval to the most violent and oppressive aspects of religious cultures.
Her falsehoods were of a sort committed by many refugee claimants. Rather than coming to Holland directly from Somalia in 1992, as she had told officials, she had come first to Germany with a forced-marriage husband, a Canadian cousin, then left him and fled on the train to Amsterdam. And she had changed her name on the form – her real name is Ayaan Hirsi Magan – to keep her family from finding her.
The Immigration Minister said that, even though the party had known about these falsehoods for years and they had been part of Ms. Ali’s official biography, as a party opposed to illegal immigration they had no choice but to force their own star MP out of government.
During an emergency debate over Ms. Ali’s citizenship in Dutch parliament yesterday, Ms. Verdonk defended the move: “I understand my colleagues’ emotions, but we’re living in a country that prides itself on respecting the law. Rules and laws apply to everyone, and I’m not making any exceptions.”
Even Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende seemed shocked, saying he was “surprised by the speed” with which his minister acted, though he said she alone was responsible for the matter.
The harsh turn against immigration in the Netherlands seems to be costing the country many of its most loyal citizens. Earlier this year, Ms. Verdonk insisted on deporting Taida Pasic, a straight-A high-school student who had become a star of her community after arriving as a refugee from Kosovo at age 12. On the grounds that she had applied using the wrong procedure, Ms. Verdonk ordered the girl expelled. Immigration officials handcuffed her in front of her classmates and deported her, two months before her final exams.
Ms. Ali has somewhat better prospects. She said yesterday that she had taken a job with the American Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington.
