Ayann Hirsi Ali

[JBigjake]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
In May 2006, Hirsi Ali told a television reporter that she had lied about her name, her age, and the manner in which she came to the Netherlands. According to the newspaper Volkskrant, Hirsi Ali now plans to move to the U.S. and "start working for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in September after reaching a deal with US authorities about her security." ... Hirsi Ali was voted European of the Year for 2006 by the European editors of Reader's Digest magazine. ... The Norwegian member of parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde has nominated Hirsi Ali as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize of 2006.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=691097
"The political career of the Netherlands' most prominent MP was thrown into doubt as an investigation was launched into explosive allegations that she lied about her past in order to gain residence status and Dutch nationality."

Interesting how the Dutch are handling this: she may be stripped of her citizenship & political office & wind up in the USA! Doesn't sound like Denmark or Norway are stepping up to help her.

[Belgian guy]

How exactly could Norway or Denmark help her in this matter?

[johan neeskens]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
In May 2006, Hirsi Ali told a television reporter that she had lied about her name, her age, and the manner in which she came to the Netherlands. According to the newspaper Volkskrant, Hirsi Ali now plans to move to the U.S. and "start working for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in September after reaching a deal with US authorities about her security." ... Hirsi Ali was voted European of the Year for 2006 by the European editors of Reader's Digest magazine. ... The Norwegian member of parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde has nominated Hirsi Ali as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize of 2006.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=691097
"The political career of the Netherlands' most prominent MP was thrown into doubt as an investigation was launched into explosive allegations that she lied about her past in order to gain residence status and Dutch nationality."

Interesting how the Dutch are handling this: she may be stripped of her citizenship & political office & wind up in the USA! Doesn't sound like Denmark or Norway are stepping up to help her.

What's hilarious about this is that she's a member of parliament for the VVD, a political party of right-wing libertarians. The Dutch immigration minister, Rita Verdonk, also is a VVD member, and she is notorious for her incredibly harsh policies. She's the one who denied Solomon Kalou a Dutch passport, notably, and she also sent a 17-year old student home three weeks before she could take her pre-university exams in the Netherlands for, and wait for this ...... Lying about her visa application. There is another precedent, an Iranian family was sent home by Verdonk SIX years after they were given the Dutch nationality as the authorities found out they too had lied about their visa application.

In short, it's all very convenient that she's taken a new position in the US. On that note, does anyone know about that right-wing pro-Bush think tank she's supposed to be joining?

[nicephoras]

American Enterprise Institute

[kakaboypuf redded]

Good riddance!

[BenReilly]

Interesting how the Dutch are handling this: she may be stripped of her citizenship & political office & wind up in the USA!

Cool. Welcome to America.

[johan neeskens]

Welcome to America indeed. Be prepared to spend millions on paying her bodyguards and on other security measures. That's how much it cost the Dutch government to protect her.

[johan neeskens]

American Enterprise Institute

How right wing are they exactly?

I can't stand how much of an opportunist the woman is. When she first arrived in Holland she joined the Dutch labour party's scientific think tank.

[Mefisto]

How exactly could Norway or Denmark help her in this matter?

buy her drinks?

[nicephoras]

How right wing are they exactly?

I can't stand how much of an opportunist the woman is. When she first arrived in Holland she joined the Dutch labour party's scientific think tank.

Pretty right wing. Lynne Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, John Yoo, etc.
They're not the Heritage Foundation. They're the Heritage Foundation with a slight libertarian twist.

[JBigjake]

How exactly could Norway or Denmark help her in this matter?
I should have added Sweden! Big on awards & statements, short on action:
"On November 20, 2004 Ayaan Hirsi Ali was awarded Denmark's Liberal Party’s Freedom Prize (largest party of Denmark and part of the ruling coalition) "for her work to further freedom of speech and the rights of women". Due to threats from Islamic fundamentalists she was not at the time able to receive it personally; however a year later, November 17, 2005, she travelled to Denmark to thank Anders Fogh Rasmussen, leader of Denmark's Liberal Party and prime minister of Denmark, for the prize. ... In June 2005, Hirsi Ali was awarded by the Norwegian Political Think Tank, Human Rights Service (HRS) [htpp://www.rights.no], with the annual Price, This Years European Bellwether. According to HRS, Hirsi Ali is “beyond a doubt, the leading European politician in the field of integration. (She is) a master at the art of mediating the most difficult issues with insurmountable courage, wisdom, reflectiveness, and clarity. On August 29, 2005, Hirsi Ali was awarded the annual Democracy Prize of the Liberal Party of Sweden "for her courageous work for democracy, human rights and women's rights." Hirsi Ali was voted European of the Year for 2006 by the European editors of Reader's Digest magazine. At a ceremony in The Hague on January 23, Hirsi Ali accepted the Reader's Digest award from EU Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes. The Norwegian member of parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde has nominated Hirsi Ali as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize of 2006."

[BenReilly]

Welcome to America indeed. Be prepared to spend millions on paying her bodyguards and on other security measures. That's how much it cost the Dutch government to protect her.

How much did it cost to protect Theo van Gogh?

[Yankee_Blue]

How much did it cost to protect Theo van Gogh?

Whatever it was, it apparently wasn't enough.

[Mefisto]

[QUOTE=JBigjake]I should have added Sweden! Big on awards & statements, short on action:
QUOTE]

Did she ask any of the Scandinavian countries?

and wasnt she offered a job in america?


What do you want us to do? send a jet to pick her up?

[Mefisto]

Whatever it was, it apparently wasn't enough.

for the muslim wackos it was just enough

[kakaboypuf redded]

You forget, we're all packin heat over here. Any fool with a diaper on his head that is packing more than nail clippers is going to get shot, lynched, drug behind a pickup (Texas only) and shot again.

If he lives, he'll get tossed in the hole with a 500 lb boytoucher serving 34 life sentences.

I doesnt take much effort to imagine the redneck accent of this clown

[Yankee_Blue]

I doesnt take much effort to imagine the redneck accent of this clown

ummm... no... wait... you see...




yea. you're right.

[afgrijselijkheid]

How much did it cost to protect Theo van Gogh?

Whatever it was, it apparently wasn't enough.


don't be silly, he was not an elected government official

[JBigjake]

What do you want us to do? send a jet to pick her up?
A cab from her house to Århus would do just fine!
Or offer her a job?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_lawmaker;_ylt=Aj..cIfoVw7bWrBRNJoRLXqbOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NTMzazIyBHNlYwMxNjk2

[Mefisto]

A cab from her house to Århus would do just fine!
Or offer her a job?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_lawmaker;_ylt=Aj..cIfoVw7bWrBRNJoRLXqbOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NTMzazIyBHNlYwMxNjk2

well I do need a new room mate