De spanningen tussen de 1 miljoen moslims in Nederland en de 1,4 miljoen PVV-stemmers kan door het proces tegen Geert Wilders een kookpunt bereiken. Dat schrijft Ayaan Hirsi Ali in The Wall Street Journal.

“Nederland heeft al eerder kennis gemaakt met islamitisch geweld en kan opnieuw te maken krijgen met gewelddadige confrontaties,” waarschuwt zij.

Hirsi Ali vraagt zich af hoe het mogelijk is dat een beschaafd Europees land een politicus de mond wil snoeren door te dreigen met celstraffen. Als antwoord noemt zij drie redenen.

De eerste: het traditionele onbehagen over Wilders’ manier van politiek bedrijven. Volgens Hirsi Ali is Nederland gericht op consensus, wat in de praktijk neerkomt op het ontlopen van discussies over controversiële onderwerpen.

Hirsi Ali constateert dat de elite de gewone man het zwijgen oplegde als het ging over problemen met islamitische migranten. “Geef moslims migranten voordelen en wacht tot zij vrijwillig integreren, was het devies. (…) Een steeds groter deel van de bevolking, waaronder ikzelf en Geert Wilders, hadden twijfels over dit lichtzinnige en gevaarlijk idee van tolerantie.”

“De tweede reden dat Geert Wilders terecht staat is de electorale kracht van de moslims in de vier grootste steden van Nederland. Tijdens de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in 2006 traden moslims voor de eerste keer op als een machtblok dat een politieke partij kon maken en breken.”

Als derde reden noemt Hirsi Ali de rol van de Organisation of the Islamic Conference die het Europese debat over de islam wil smoren. “De 57 OIC-landen hanteren daarbij de strategie om moslimimmigranten in Europa te beschouwen als satellietgemeenschappen. Dat gebeurt door islamitische culturele organisaties, moskeeën en islamitische centra op te richten en door vast te houden aan de dubbele nationaliteit. “

Hirsi Ali vreest dat het proces tegen Wilders islamcritici de mond snoert. Als het vrije woord in Europa niet langer beschermd wordt, verliest het Westen de strijd tegen de politieke islam, waarschuwt ze.

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Na "gingers have souls" hebben islam "street corner preachers" kritiek op cartoonserie South Park;

Makers ‘Southpark’ met de dood bedreigd algemeendagblad 9:45:00 uur CEST	Tekenaars South Park bedreigd met de dood detelegraaf 5:42:00 uur CEST
Moslims bedreigen tekenaars South Park met dood elsevier 8:31:00 uur CEST	Extremisten boos over profeet depers 14:46:00 uur CEST
Makers South Park met de dood bedreigd standaard 20:02:00 uur CEST	‘South Park’-makers bedreigd nu 10:30:00 uur CEST
Makers van Southpark via internet bedreigd parool 11:21:00 uur CEST	Extremisten dreigen over profeet in berenpak nhd 11:15:00 uur CEST

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Begin oktober staakte zij de juridische procedure tegen de Nederlandse staat, waarmee ze de regering wilde dwingen haar beveiliging x96 ook bij verblijf buiten Nederland x96 te blijven betalen, meldde het Nederlands Dagblad onlangs.In Het Parool van zaterdag zegt ze dat ze zich de juridische strijd financieel niet langer kan permitteren. x91Al het geld, van mijzelf, van sponsors en van het AEI gaat naar privxe9beveiliging.x92

Hirsi Ali werkt sinds september 2006 voor het American Enterprise Institute (AEI), een conservatieve denktank in Washington.DoodsbedreigingenAl voor de moord op Theo van Gogh (vandaag vijf jaar geleden), werd Hirsi Ali met de dood bedreigd en beveiligd. De hoogste alarmfase werd afgekondigd toen de brief werd gevonden die Mohammed B. met een mes op het lichaam van de filmmaker had geprikt. x91Dit is een open brief aan de ongelovige fundamentalist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. U marcheert in de ranken van de soldaten van het kwaad. Deze brief is een poging om uw kwaad voor eens en altijd het zwijgen te doen opleggen.x92Hirsi Ali werd onmiddellijk op een geheime plek in Nederland ondergebracht en een week later naar een onderduikadres in Amerika gevlogen.

In januari 2005 keerde de toenmalige VVD-politica terug in de Tweede Kamer, waar ze werkte tot haar vertrek naar de VS. Sinds de moord op Van Gogh wordt zij streng bewaakt, waar zij zich ook ter wereld bevindt.’Nederland verantwoordelijk’Vorig jaar zomer stapte Hirsi Ali naar de rechter in een poging aan te tonen dat Nederland financieel verantwoordelijk blijft voor haar beveiliging. Dat was haar toegezegd, beweerde ze.

Diverse getuigen zijn onder ede verhoord, onder wie oud-minister Gerrit Zalm en voormalig Nationaal Coxf6rdinator Terrorismebestrijding Tjibbe Joustra.Joustra en Zalm zeiden dat Hirsi Ali wel degelijk wist dat Nederland na verloop van tijd zou stoppen met betalen. Medewerkers van Hirsi Ali verklaarden echter dat zowel Joustra als Zalm haar had beloofd ook in de VS voor bewaking te zorgen. In elk geval tot de Amerikaanse autoriteiten de bewaking zouden overnemen of totdat zij zelf voldoende geld zou hebben om haar beveiliging te regelen.

Zalm told the judicial hearing that he had done everything in his power to ensure that Hirsi Ali would continue to be protected after she left the Netherlands. He said he repeatedly urged the justice minister and the US ambassador at the time to ensure that the former politician would get security. They said everything would be arranged. And thatx92s what he told Hirsi Ali, who was extremely worried about her safety.Political mentorHirsi Ali said she considered Zalmx92s reassuring words as confirmation that the Dutch cabinet would take care of her security, at home and abroad. But naturally, said Zalm yesterday, as finance minister he had not become involved with security arrangements. He acted – and this was x93completely clear to Hirsi Alix94 – as her friend and political mentor.Nevertheless he made extensive use of his position as minister. His talks with the US ambassador were held in the ministerial office "while enjoying a glass of American whiskey". He used cabinet meetings to approach the justice minister about Hirsi Alix92s security.When it looked like Hirsi Ali would lose her Dutch passport in 2006 because she had lied about her name during her asylum request in 1992, Zalm asked his ministryx92s lawyers for advice on her legal position.Hirsi Ali continued to be guarded by Dutch security officials when she went to the US in Augustus 2006. But it was never the intention of the Dutch government to do this x93indefinitelyx94, said Zalm yesterday.The Americans would take over at a certain point, or at least, that was the cabinet expected. But it was not long before Zalm heard from the Dutch justice minister that this assumption was incorrect. According to US law, private individuals are not entitled to permanent security. The cabinet decided it was then up to Hirsi Ali or her American employer to take over responsibility for her security.Transition agreementAt the hearing, Hirsi Ali’s lawyer Britta Bxf6hler tried to establish whether Hirsi Ali had been told unequivocally that her security arrangements were temporary. Had Zalm explicitly told his ward that x93The Netherlands is stopping, the Americans are not taking it over, and your security is up to you?x94 Bxf6hler asked.Zalm didn’t think he did, but said he couldn’t really remember. Hirsi Ali must have been aware of the fact, he said. In conversations about her security the phrase x93transition agreementx94 was always used and that implied a temporary period.Bxf6hler put the same question to the second witness, counter-terrorism chief Tjibbe Joustra. He was responsible for Hirsi Ali’s security and had regular discussions about it with her. But at the hearing he could not remember much about them.Bxf6hler: x93Was it clear to her that the security arrangements were temporary?x94Joustra: x93If you say, ‘I am not giving an exact end date’ [for the US security] then it is clear that there is an end date.x94Bxf6hler: x93Was she told what this would mean to her?x94Joustra: x93I don’t know. Doubtless.x94Bxf6hler: x93Did you say ‘you will then have to take care of your own security’?x94Joustra: x93I do not know if it was said, literally. It was the theme of the discussion. Hirsi Ali is extremely intelligent and can draw her own conclusions.x94Bxf6hler: x93How did she react when she heard the security was being stopped?x94Joustra: x93I really cannot remember.x94On just one point Zalm and Joustra seemed to have a different recollection of what had happened. Zalm no longer knows whether Hirsi Ali discovered the US would not take charge of her security before or after she left. Joustra knew it before her departure and Hirsi Ali knew it as well, he said. Even though he had to admit he himself never told her.Lawyer Bert-Jan Houtzagers who was at the hearing on behalf of the state, had just one question to witnesses: had they explicitly told Hirsi Ali that the state would be financially responsible for her security, even if she moved abroad? Both witnesses had good memories on that score: no.

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Begin oktober staakte zij de juridische procedure tegen de Nederlandse staat, waarmee ze de regering wilde dwingen haar beveiliging – ook bij verblijf buiten Nederland – te blijven betalen, meldde het Nederlands Dagblad onlangs.In Het Parool van zaterdag zegt ze dat ze zich de juridische strijd financieel niet langer kan permitteren. ‘Al het geld, van mijzelf, van sponsors en van het AEI gaat naar privébeveiliging.’

Hirsi Ali werkt sinds september 2006 voor het American Enterprise Institute (AEI), een conservatieve denktank in Washington.DoodsbedreigingenAl voor de moord op Theo van Gogh (vandaag vijf jaar geleden), werd Hirsi Ali met de dood bedreigd en beveiligd. De hoogste alarmfase werd afgekondigd toen de brief werd gevonden die Mohammed B. met een mes op het lichaam van de filmmaker had geprikt. ‘Dit is een open brief aan de ongelovige fundamentalist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. U marcheert in de ranken van de soldaten van het kwaad. Deze brief is een poging om uw kwaad voor eens en altijd het zwijgen te doen opleggen.’Hirsi Ali werd onmiddellijk op een geheime plek in Nederland ondergebracht en een week later naar een onderduikadres in Amerika gevlogen.

In januari 2005 keerde de toenmalige VVD-politica terug in de Tweede Kamer, waar ze werkte tot haar vertrek naar de VS. Sinds de moord op Van Gogh wordt zij streng bewaakt, waar zij zich ook ter wereld bevindt.’Nederland verantwoordelijk’Vorig jaar zomer stapte Hirsi Ali naar de rechter in een poging aan te tonen dat Nederland financieel verantwoordelijk blijft voor haar beveiliging. Dat was haar toegezegd, beweerde ze.

Diverse getuigen zijn onder ede verhoord, onder wie oud-minister Gerrit Zalm en voormalig Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding Tjibbe Joustra.Joustra en Zalm zeiden dat Hirsi Ali wel degelijk wist dat Nederland na verloop van tijd zou stoppen met betalen. Medewerkers van Hirsi Ali verklaarden echter dat zowel Joustra als Zalm haar had beloofd ook in de VS voor bewaking te zorgen. In elk geval tot de Amerikaanse autoriteiten de bewaking zouden overnemen of totdat zij zelf voldoende geld zou hebben om haar beveiliging te regelen.

Zalm told the judicial hearing that he had done everything in his power to ensure that Hirsi Ali would continue to be protected after she left the Netherlands. He said he repeatedly urged the justice minister and the US ambassador at the time to ensure that the former politician would get security. They said everything would be arranged. And that’s what he told Hirsi Ali, who was extremely worried about her safety.Political mentorHirsi Ali said she considered Zalm’s reassuring words as confirmation that the Dutch cabinet would take care of her security, at home and abroad. But naturally, said Zalm yesterday, as finance minister he had not become involved with security arrangements. He acted – and this was “completely clear to Hirsi Ali” – as her friend and political mentor.Nevertheless he made extensive use of his position as minister. His talks with the US ambassador were held in the ministerial office "while enjoying a glass of American whiskey". He used cabinet meetings to approach the justice minister about Hirsi Ali’s security.When it looked like Hirsi Ali would lose her Dutch passport in 2006 because she had lied about her name during her asylum request in 1992, Zalm asked his ministry’s lawyers for advice on her legal position.Hirsi Ali continued to be guarded by Dutch security officials when she went to the US in Augustus 2006. But it was never the intention of the Dutch government to do this “indefinitely”, said Zalm yesterday.The Americans would take over at a certain point, or at least, that was the cabinet expected. But it was not long before Zalm heard from the Dutch justice minister that this assumption was incorrect. According to US law, private individuals are not entitled to permanent security. The cabinet decided it was then up to Hirsi Ali or her American employer to take over responsibility for her security.Transition agreementAt the hearing, Hirsi Ali’s lawyer Britta Böhler tried to establish whether Hirsi Ali had been told unequivocally that her security arrangements were temporary. Had Zalm explicitly told his ward that “The Netherlands is stopping, the Americans are not taking it over, and your security is up to you?” Böhler asked.Zalm didn’t think he did, but said he couldn’t really remember. Hirsi Ali must have been aware of the fact, he said. In conversations about her security the phrase “transition agreement” was always used and that implied a temporary period.Böhler put the same question to the second witness, counter-terrorism chief Tjibbe Joustra. He was responsible for Hirsi Ali’s security and had regular discussions about it with her. But at the hearing he could not remember much about them.Böhler: “Was it clear to her that the security arrangements were temporary?”Joustra: “If you say, ‘I am not giving an exact end date’ [for the US security] then it is clear that there is an end date.”Böhler: “Was she told what this would mean to her?”Joustra: “I don’t know. Doubtless.”Böhler: “Did you say ‘you will then have to take care of your own security’?”Joustra: “I do not know if it was said, literally. It was the theme of the discussion. Hirsi Ali is extremely intelligent and can draw her own conclusions.”Böhler: “How did she react when she heard the security was being stopped?”Joustra: “I really cannot remember.”On just one point Zalm and Joustra seemed to have a different recollection of what had happened. Zalm no longer knows whether Hirsi Ali discovered the US would not take charge of her security before or after she left. Joustra knew it before her departure and Hirsi Ali knew it as well, he said. Even though he had to admit he himself never told her.Lawyer Bert-Jan Houtzagers who was at the hearing on behalf of the state, had just one question to witnesses: had they explicitly told Hirsi Ali that the state would be financially responsible for her security, even if she moved abroad? Both witnesses had good memories on that score: no.

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De issue is echter niet beschaving van de islam maar inpassing van de islam in de rechtsmacht zodat een westerse islam ontstaat die de seculiere staat aanvaardt. Bovendien "Het Nederlands kent geen woorden als ‘humaniseren’ of ‘katholikiseren’" civiliseren of islamiseren.

AMSTERDAM – De vrijheid van meningsuiting is in Nederland niet gewaarborgd.

De moord op Theo van Gogh, maandag vijf jaar geleden, betekende het failliet van de rechtsstaat. Dat zegt Ayaan Hirsi Ali vandaag in een interview met Het Parool. ”Hij had desnoods tegen zijn wil beschermd moeten worden.” Het vroegere VVD-Kamerlid, door de moordenaar van Van Gogh rechtstreeks aangesproken in een brief die hij door het lichaam prikte, denkt dat het islamdebat in Nederland ernstig te lijden heeft onder de aanhoudende dreiging van moslims. Zijzelf is enige tijd na de moord op Van Gogh, met wie ze de anti-islamfilm Submission maakte, naar Amerika gevlucht. Daar bekostigt ze, met hulp van particulieren, haar eigen beveiliging, omdat Nederland er niet langer voor wilde opdraaien.

Een proces tegen de Nederlandse staat heeft ze begin deze maand stopgezet, omdat ze het niet meer kan betalen. ”Een effectieve manier om iemand monddood te maken. Terwijl ik niet het gevaar ben, maar de radicale moslims.” Hirsi Ali haalt uit naar de bewindslieden van destijds, naar de multiculturalisten in de Kamer en naar de gevestigde middenpartijen, die integratieproblemen volgens haar blijven toedekken. ”Waar het over moet gaan, de civilisatie van de islam, komt helemaal niet aan de orde.”

Netherlands: How many Bouyeris live in the Netherlands? On November 2nd the Netherlands will mark five years to the murder of Theo van Gogh.  The following is a translation of an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published in Dutch newspaper Het Parool on October 31, 2009, as part of a series of interviews marking the occasion: She didn’t know Theo very well.  They had met each other twice, and had many phone conversations, when they worked on SubmissionNetherlands: How many Bouyeris live in the Netherlands?On November 2nd the Netherlands will mark five years to the murder of Theo van Gogh.  The following is a translation of an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published in Dutch newspaper Het Parool on October 31, 2009, as part of a series of interviews marking the occasion:She didn’t know Theo very well.  They had met each other twice, and had many phone conversations, when they worked on Submission. The short film, which displayed the cruel oppression of women in Islam, was for her a statement, and fit Theo as a provocation; and heralded the death of the village fool who did not want any protection.  “It would have been a good friendship, if he was still alive.”The sturdy men stayed outside outside, but she’s at ease and we begin by sinning: white wine.  Yellow polo, black pants, casual chic, with her figure and charisma she can walk the catwalk.  She appears fragile but also radiates great strength. Her voice is shy, a confusing combination with what she says.  It’s easy to understand why older Hague men, in some way, want to embrace her, she’s a charming person.  Unspoiled by a bizarre life, a roller-coaster between the Somali desert and the top circles of Washington, where others don’t get to within four lifetimes.  And in fourteen days she’ll be forty.She’s considered worldwide as an important critic of Islam, in particular of the oppressed role of women in that religion, of which she herself – abused, circumcised, married off – received her portion.  For this reason she was shunted aside as ‘biased’, but as an academic she knows the hard facts on her side.The murder of Theo van Gogh naturally, which she considers the Dutch 9/11, the worldwide terror in the name of Allah, the shelters full of Muslim women, honor murders with no end, and the involvement of Muslims in two thirds of all armed conflicts in the world.  And all that because the word of the prophet is infallible, which makes self-reflection impossible and holds Islam to misunderstood truths from the 7th century.  Whoever dares to criticize, awaits the sword of lifelong protection.  “Muslims are very capable of getting organized when they feel insulted, but never when terrorism is committed on their behalf.”  The invocation “Islam is peace”, the selective interpretation by people who justify and by Obama in Cairo, she can’t hear it anymore.Hirsi Ali, after a stormy carrier as a VVD parliament member, has been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, a right-wing think-tank, where the leading principle is: the government should be as small as possible.  IN her own field, Islam and the West, Islam and the woman, it’s not applicable, and outside her subject matter she can think what she wants about atheism (good), gay marriage (do it), abortion and euthanaisa (under certain circumstances).  “The opinions in my field fit well at AEI, the data that I show satisfies them.  It’s not ideological, it’s scientific.”The Dutch have become quiet about her, and she really thinks that’s good.  “I’ve stayed out of the picture deliberately.  As parliamentarian, you must constantly go to the public, but I’ve said my part in the Netherlands.  My angle was the long term, invest in the emancipation of women, with visible returns in the next generation.  It’s too early to say what the result would be, but there’s radicalization ongoing in the leftist parties and the Dutch people now look right through the opportunists.”After the murder of Theo van Gogh, which still causes her guilt and anger, the public debate quickly shriveled up: hardened participants such as Paul Cliteur and her friend Leon de Winter, but also others, drew back: “All those people thought: I don’t want to be murdered.  There was always the trust that the rule of law would do its work, but they’ve been betrayed.  Their silence is not the result of the murder, but of the failure of the rule of law.  Remkes, Donner, Cohen, all those people should have resigned recognizing that they had disappointed.”They’ve all seen Submission, some on teh first showing, they knew what’s coming up.  Theo who wanted nothing, was offered four days of protection, and I , who already had protection, didn’t get any more.  They were not, with all the AIVD activity and all the wire-tapping, capable of stopping the culprit.  They should have protected Theo against his will, but no, they were completely incompetent.  No wonder that Dutch don’t feel safe in this debate”.After her studies in political science in Leiden she planned to finally start ‘a regular life’. But at the Wiardi Beckman foundation (WBS), the PvdA think-tank, the theme of immigration & Islam was inevitable.“Paul Kalma (then WBS director) told me: we are a think-tank, we need answers here, now!  Later you may do something else.”  Pim Fortuyn became active, the PvdA had to come up with something.”“I told Kalma: ‘everybody thinks that the cause and solution of the migrant problem is in social-economic factors, but the social-cultural factor, Islam, comes up just every now and then.  While I think it’s about that.’  I was the most junior person there, but 9/11 turned everything on its head.“There was a paradoxical request from me: ‘I may not play into Fortuyn’s hands, but they did want to hear everything I had to say, namely that we shouldn’t talk about integration, but about civilization of Islam.  And from a junior assistant I suddenly became an icon.  Page length interviews, the media and the voters were very happy with a new voice and as long as I was by the PvdA, I was the holy Maria, except among power-politicians such as Klaas de Vries and Ad Melkert, who wanted to nothing to do with it. People who used such words as cosmopolitan and multicultural and such – but had no faith in them. Also for PvdA multiculturalists such as Khadija Arib, Nebahat Albayrak or Fatima Elatik, she doesn’t have many good words.  ‘They have, just as I have, found their way out of the labyrinth, but they became spokespeople for a group for which they can’t speak. They talk about confinement, marrying off, genital mutilation, but they’ve never had to deal with it, are not part of that community and have no idea.  They took my criticism of Islam very badly, and meanwhile they enjoy a freedom that they keep from others.  I was a racist, and meanwhile they thought exclusively in terms of subsidies with which they can keep the mores of Islam.  And if something happens, such as the murder of Theo, then it never has to do with Islam.”“After the murder it became clear that there was a very nasty confrontation between Islam and the ethnic [white] population.  There’s no point in denying it, you could measure it in the support for Wilders.  People don’t vote for him because of the Turkish acceptance [into the EU] or the AOW [pension], it’s about a justifiable problem with Islam.  Politicians of the established order choose to ignore that; as soon as they get to the Hague it becomes their world.  Wilders is good for the Netherlands, he leads a good opposition.  I’ve had nothing further to do with him, but i now the most important voice on the most important problem in the Netherlands.  Taxing headscarves is ridiculous naturally, but what do the PvdA, CDA, VVD do?  They don’t want to talk about it.”She doesn’t think Wilders will get to power.  “He’ll be written off, just like the LPF [Fortuyn's party]“.By the VVD, who roped her in as parliament member, she found shelter in 2003.  It’s still her party, she sees herself as a classic liberal.  “I’m ideologically completely at home in the VVD, but the party should broach the problems with Islam.  There should be good protection for the debaters so that people such as Hans Jansen and Paul Kliteur could do their work, for immigration people should embrace the rule of law contractually and the Islamic schools should be shut down.  There they radicalize in isolation, there backwardness is kept up at the expense of the taxpayer.  There something completely different takes place than in the Jewish or Christian schools.”In the book Infidel, her splendid autobiography, she describes the sad months after the murder, a period of fleeing and hiding, the filthy hotels, the isolation in which she landed.  And not long afterward she had to leave her house (the neighbors feared an attack), her Dutch passport became a topic of discussion (she had ‘lied’ when entering the Netherlands, the cabinet was surprised), and finally – when she had already fled to America – the Netherlands refused to pay for her protection any longer.She has used the term ‘badgered away’, but at the same time she regrets it, says she has warm feelings for the country that made her development possible.  “But it wasn’t proper.  My protection was stopped with scandalous arguments, you could therefore count on safety only for a short time.  I had to suspend my lawsuit against the state because the money has run out.  All the money, mine, my sponsors’ and the AEI’s goes towards private protection.  A very effective strategy to shut people up.  while: we are not dangerous, the radical Muslims are dangerous.”“During his sentencing Bouyeri said: My God instructed me to do this.  How many Bouyeris live in the Netherlands?  Shortly after the murder of Theo the number of radical Muslims was estimated at 5%, that is 5,000 young men.  Here the discussion is now ongoing about sending 40,000 extra troops to the Afghanistan.  In the Netherlands it’s therefore a whole army unit!  I take it very seriously, even if they’re in various levels of radicalization.  It’s a danger for the safety, for the culture and for the identity. Netherlands should be much more firm in protecting its own self-respect.”She’s staying in American, her new home.  She’s now working on a book “Nomad”, that will appear in the Netherlands in March, a follow up to “Infidel”.  “I will describe the pattern of how people on my topic are pushed out of the system.”  She won’t divulge anymore about her publisher.  And on 20th street the armored car is waiting.

Hirsi Ali’s parool “islamdebat is mislukt” is a post from AHA Hirsi-Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali info blog.

Deze week werd bekend dat het nieuwe boek van Ayaan Hirsi Ali in februari 2010 zal verschijnen. Uitgeverij Augustus, die de wereldprimeur had van Hirsi Ali’s wereldwijde bestseller Mijn vrijheid (Infidel), zal ook dit boek publiceren.

Het nieuwe boek gaat door waar Mijn vrijheid ophield: Ayaan Hirsi Ali beschrijft haar ervaringen in Amerika, haar ontmoetingen met moslimvrouwen over de hele wereld en hun pogingen om westerse waarden met de Islam te verenigen. In een unieke mix van persoonlijk verhaal, reportage en essay schrijft Hirsi Ali nu eens scherp, dan weer ontroerend, geestig en bij vlagen hilarisch over haar Amerikaanse jaren, haar persoonlijk leven en veiligheid en over haar ideeën en strijd.

Bij uitgeverij Augustus verschenen van Ayaan Hirsi Ali eerder de essaybundels De zoontjesfabriek, De maagdenkooi en Submission. In september 2007 verscheen haar autobiografie Mijn vrijheid (Infidel), die inmiddels in 33 talen is vertaald. Het nieuwe boek zal gelijktijdig verschijnen in de Verenigde Staten en in een aantal Europese landen.

Vervolg op Mijn vrijheid van Ayaan is a post from AHA Hirsi-Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali info blog.

In 2006, I had a debate with Tariq Ramadan, the author of Western Muslims and the future of Islam. In the hypothetical event of a war between Egypt and Switzerland, for which community would he be prepared to die, I asked him.

Mr Ramadan has dual citizenship. He’s an Egyptian by birth and a Swiss by naturalisation. His response was one of rage on different levels. Above all I think he was outraged that one should ask such a question. He refused to answer.

Mr Ramadan, like many other Muslims, may have two or more citizenships. From all that he expresses both in person and on paper, it is clear that his loyalty, above all, is to Islam. I do not doubt that he would die for Islam, like most Muslims, and that’s his prerogative. But what European countries have done is give citizenship to individuals who feel no obligation to share in their societies for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer and in the event of a catastrophe, sacrifice themselves.

In this way, they evade one of the chief criteria of citizenship. Political allegiance to the constitution of your country is the minimum requirement. It is this state of affairs that makes Christopher Caldwell’s book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration and the West (Allen Lane, £17.99), which opens with the sentence, "Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind," a chilling read.

This absence of mind, which Caldwell lays bare, is reflected in Europe’s immigration policies and especially in its response to Islam. No debate today is more explosive, more sensitive, more confusing and more frightening than the debate on the future of Islam in Europe.

In March this year, the French intellectual Pascal Bruckner and I spoke about Caldwell’s book. Bruckner said, "Americans [like Caldwell] do not understand Europe. There are many Muslims who, in their daily lives, are more agnostic and in their practices even atheist, but are just Muslim in name."

This seems to be reassuring. But would these agnostic and unpracticing Muslims, if push came to shove, die for Islam or for France? My guess is they would, most likely, die for Islam.

Caldwell discusses this theme in an interesting light: he does not overlook the Europeans who feel that Islam is a danger to European values but asks, "How can you fight for something

you cannot define?" And this is Europe’s problem – insecurity about who we are, what our various flags mean, why, with every turn, we spend less and less on the military.

Europe has become a place for new religions, new creeds, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism. Everything is thus relative. This is an uncertainty that the Muslim does not share. The Muslim ethic and tribal spirit are far more resilient and fierce in war than the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

The numbers and insights that Caldwell has collected in his book are visible to many Europeans. During my life in Holland, and in my trips back, I have spoken to European intellectuals who see the revolution that Caldwell describes so well in his book. They may not call it a revolution, they may also not see it as complete, but they see the identity crisis in Europe.

Take the debate on freedom of expression. In 1989 and afterwards, the provocations in the name of Islam were greeted with a confident, "No way! This is Europe, and you can say what you like, write what you like," and so on.

Two decades later, Europeans are not so sure about the values of freedom of expression. Most members of the media engage in self-censorship. Textbooks in schools and universities have been adapted in such a way as not to offend Muslim sentiment. And legislation to punish ‘blasphemy’, if not passed, has been considered in most countries – or old laws that were never used are being revived.

Take anti-Semitism in Europe. The sensitivity and guilt Europeans feel about the Holocaust is comparable to the sensitivity and guilt that Americans feel towards black Americans. A decade or two ago, it was unthinkable for Jews to be slandered openly and be targeted for no other reason than their Jewishness.

Today, in the name of Islam, synagogues are vandalised. There are open denials of the Holocaust. There is an active network of Muslim organisations lobbying to curtail or even get rid of Israel. There are incidents of Jews being harassed, beaten, even killed. All this is met with grim silence and rationalisations that it’s not really anti-Semitic but anti-Israel. Can you imagine anything like this happening today in America to black people and it being met with silence?

Take the history of women’s liberation in Europe. In the 1970s, women were burning their bras, abortion was legalised almost everywhere and rape in marriage was penalised. Today, more and more European elites, including some feminists, argue that

it might, perhaps, just be better to respect the culture and religion of a minority.

Women’s shelters have adapted their curriculum – instead of teaching the women who come to them how to become self-reliant, the shelters facilitate prayer rooms and employ mediators from the Islamic community. All this mediation serves only one purpose – that is, to return the woman to the circumstances of abuse she left.

Here is a system, which was a tool to emancipate, that has been completely transformed to serve the Muslim purpose of obedience. If the wife obeys, then the husband no longer needs to beat her. The matter is settled.

The same applies to gays. Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable that anti-gay sentiment would pass without condemnation. In Holland, for instance, we pride ourselves on allowing gays to have the exact same rights as heterosexuals. Yet today, they are beaten on the streets of Amsterdam. To be on the safe side in certain neighbourhoods in Europe, it’s advisable to conceal your identity if you are gay or lesbian.

The terrifying paradox about these developments is that Muslim immigrants were admitted into European borders on the basis of universal rights and freedoms that a large number of them now trample on, while others perhaps watch passively, or seek to defend only the image of Islam.

Even worse, those who lobby to abolish freedom of expression and to discriminate against Jews, women and gays do so while using the vocabulary of freedom and through the institutions of parliament and the courts that were designed to protect the rights of all.

American observers like Caldwell, Bruce Bawer, Walter Laqeur and many others who go to Europe and write candidly about these things can return to America, where they can write on another topic, keep their jobs and their social networks.

Europeans who do the same thing as Caldwell, often face a campaign of ostracisation from their own compatriots. They run the risk of losing their jobs or not being promoted or not getting invitations to the circles of which they are a part. The more stubborn, like Geert Wilders, get prosecuted, and access to a neighbouring country is even denied.

In reality, if Europe falls, it’s not because of Islam. It is because the Europeans of today – unlike their forbears in the Second World War – will not die to defend the values or the future of Europe. Even if they were asked to make the final sacrifice, many a post-modern lily-livered European would escape into an obscure mesh of conscientious objection. All that Islam has to do is walk into the vacuum.

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