Ayaan Hirsi Ali has returned to the United States after having to leave due to her inability to afford proper security. As I have previously posted, she has lived under a fatwa since speaking out against islamic practices and her partner and friend Theo Van Gough had his throat slit for exercising free speech against islam.

But what about Holland? The Dutch have long been known as a very free society … and yet …. Via Tel-Chai Nation:

Last week, the Dutch government abruptly cut off her security funding, forcing her to return briefly to Holland.

The reasons given were financial, but there was clearly more to it. To put it bluntly, many in Holland find her too loud, too public in her condemnation of radical Islam. She doesn’t sound conciliatory, in the modern continental fashion. Compare her description of Islam as “brutal, bigoted, fixated on controlling women” with the German judge who, citing the Koran, in January told a Muslim woman trying to obtain a divorce from her violent husband that she should have “expected” her husband to deploy the corporal punishment his religion approves. Hirsi Ali herself says she is often told, in so many words, that she’s ‘brought her problems on herself.’ Now the Dutch prime minister openly says he wants her to deal with them alone.

Fortunately, Hirsi Ali is already back in the United States, under professional, full-time, well-resourced and for the moment privately organized protection. But this week, the Dutch parliament is due to debate her status once again. And once again, the Dutch will be confronted with the facts that Hirsi Ali remains a Dutch citizen; that the threat to her life comes at least in part from groups based in Holland; that she lives abroad because the Dutch political situation forced her to; and that when she speaks out, she does so in defense of what she believes to be Dutch values.

Whether or not the Dutch like it – and I’m sure most of them don’t – revoking her police protection will send a clear message to the world: that the Dutch are no longer willing to protect their own traditions of free speech. Resources will be found, and she will recover. But will Holland?

It sounds like the islamification of Europe is continuing. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is obviously a strong and resourceful woman. She has not only survived but excelled under the most dire circumstances. She has and is facing the very real threat of being murdered by rage-filled islamafascists. She will survive. But as the quote above asks, will the Dutch?

It makes me sad to see the Dutch retreat from support of free speech.

On a side note, its interesting to me that those who have been oppressed and are seeking freedom come to America. Yet those who live here and take the freedoms for granted decry our lack of freedom and find fault with our country at every turn. I wonder if Bruce Springsteen, who claims our freedoms are diminished, will donated some of his multi-millions to help provide security for Ms. Ali.

Others: Christopher Hitchens speaks out in defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Booker Rising, Veritas Universalis, Ace of Spades HQ.

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• Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Real Time with Bill Maher
• The Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Aayan Hirsi Ali – Courage and Grace
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