Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to seek protection in France

Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to seek protection in France
Posted : Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:14:04 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Europe (World)


Paris- Former Dutch member of parliament and critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali is to seek protection in France, reports said Sunday. Speaking to the French Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche, Hirsi Ali, who was born in Somalia, said, " I hope to gain French citizenship with the support of French intellectuals."

Claude Gueant, general secretary in the presidential Elysee Palace, had assessed her dossier a few weeks ago, she said.

Hirsi Ali, 38, has been subjected to death threats since making critical remarks about political Islam. The Dutch government suspended her police protection a few months ago.

"My personal situation has recently become increasingly dangerous. Bernard Henri-Levy contacted me and said that I had a right to naturalization and not only for personal reasons, but because the issue was the right to freedom of opinion," she said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/184844,former-dutch-lawmaker-ayaan-hirsi-ali-to-seek-protection-in.html

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She does not receive financial support for her protection from the Dutch government while she is out of the country, and for legal reasons the United States cannot cover her costs, she said.

Hirsi Ali is currently raising funds to pay for her own protection and works for a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
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She caused shockwaves in 2002 by describing Islam as a "backward culture", and again in 2004 by calling the Prophet Mohammed a "pervert" and a "tyrant". In a recent interview with British newspaper The Independent, she described Islam as a "new fascism."

She was also in France to receive the Simone de Beauvoir prize for women's freedom, which she was co-awarded with the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.

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So Mitt Romney, the "France of the 21 th century" is maybe less chicken than the US conservative think tanks... ?

France has even more Muslims and they're none too amused by her insults to both the religion and its prophet.

Honestly, she might be right about a few things here and there, but she sounds mostly like an Islamic Ann Coulter who uses hyperbole to smear people and gain favor with arch conservatives on the other side.

Nobody allied with the AEI has any support from me. Not one breath, not one dime.

In the USA of A, if you a virulent secularist (no matter what kind of religion), you are not welcome.

Even if she is a "conservative", which she hardly is, she has the right to have an opinion.

She has the right to have protection for that opinion, when that opinion makes her risk death.

In a democracy there are no laws against "blasphemy". You have the right to say that Jesus was an idiot or Muhammed a sissy wothout any other risk than to be countered verbally. Not with a knife or a gun.

Guys like Mitt Romney and Huckabee in France would never be supported by millions like in the USA, they would be considered as
fringe fanatics.

You obviously don't understand the basics of freedom of expression, separation of Church and State and democracy.
Not to talk about the rights of death-threatened refugees.

Sadly it took her 4 years to understand that. You still don't.