Summary
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Muslim woman who sought asylum in the Netherlands and then became one of its foremost critics of Muslim intolerance. Elected to parliament, she assailed Dutch Muslims for their repression of women and Dutch liberals for their willingness to accept it. On occasion, she also criticized the growing anti-immigrant prejudice in the Netherlands. For her pains, she has now been driven out of a country that likes to think of itself as a liberal democracy.
Ms. Hirsi Ali's story shows why the challenge of Muslim extremism is as serious in parts of Europe as it is in the Middle East. In the Netherlands now, public figures cannot criticize the oppression of women within the country's own Muslim community without risking assassination: Ms. Hirsi Ali has been in hiding since 2004, when a filmmaker she assisted in making a documentary about women and Islam was murdered. But such outspokenness also offends many native-born Dutch, either because they refuse to address the extremism in their midst or they hope to avoid a radical Muslim backlash.See the full content of this document
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Price of Speaking Out
That's why Ms. Hirsi Ali was evicted from her apartment by a Dutch court ...
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