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Hirsi Ali, atheism and Islam
By Spengler
Few public figures have done more to earn our sympathy than the Muslim
apostate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a fugitive from her native Somalia, and now
a virtual exile from her adopted country, the Netherlands. Under
constant threat since the 2004 murder by an Islamist of her
collaborator, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, Hirsi Ali warns the
West that Islam presents a mortal threat to its freedoms.
America took her in last year when the Dutch government connived to
remove her refugee status, but she remains something of an
embarrassment to the George W Bush administration. This autumn the
Dutch government removed her security detail, and the Americans have
taken no steps to protect her. That is a stain on the honor of both
countries.