Fitzgerald: The Hirsi Ali case: Amazement. Fury. Contempt.

An outstanding essay on the ongoing debacle surrounding Hirsi Ali. As Hugh Fitzgerald so rightly points out Hirsi Ali is a treasure in the fight against radical Islam.
FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG:
Fitzgerald: The Hirsi Ali case: Amazement. Fury. Contempt.
It may well be that the Dutch government has a point in its decision to cease paying for Dutch security personnel to live in the United States, and to guard Hirsi Ali -- especially if she is now making money giving lectures, in which case it may have been felt that she can pay for some of this herself.
But Hirsi Ali is also a weapon in the counter-Jihad. And if the Dutch understood that she in awakening the most powerful member of the West to the threat of Jihad (and not merely that "war on terror" that Bush thinks has Iraq as its "central front" and that can be won, or partly won, by "bringing democracy" to "ordinary moms and dads" in the Middle East), they would probably reinstate that protection. Hirsi Ali is of great, possibly unrivalled value, given her mediagenic appearance and her own history.

But in any case, what has the American government been doing? Has it offered to pay for her protection? For that matter, has the American government thought about establishing a permanent security force that can be called on whenever speakers on Islam feel the need for such protection? Otherwise, the situation will become like that in Europe, and in the Netherlands itself -- where many will simply fall silent, and a large part of what constitutes free speech will have been silenced.
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