Bismillah [hidayahnet] Somali-born politician and apostate from Islam admits lying to get asylum in Netherlands

Sat, 20 May 2006 18:44:33 -0700

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Somali-born politician and apostate from Islam admits lying to get asylum in Netherlands

MP in immigration row to leave Netherlands

The television programme has rocked the Dutch political establishment because Ms Hirsi Ali became one of the country's most prominent politicians after denouncing radical Islam. She became famous internationally after writing the screenplay for a film which featured naked women with verses from the Koran painted on their bodies. Theo Van Gogh, the film's director, was murdered by a radical Islamist.

Nicholas Watt, European editor
Tuesday May 16, 2006
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1775563,00.html

MMN Note: She will move to the US to start working for the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute in September.

A Somali-born Dutch MP who came to symbolise the Netherlands' troubled relations with Islam is planning to leave her adopted country and settle in the United States.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is expected to announce today that she will resign as an MP, days after a television programme accused her of lying in 1992 in order to secure Dutch nationality.

Ms Hirsi Ali, a fierce critic of radical Islam who lives under armed guard, wants to pre-empt any move by the Netherlands' tough immigration minister to strip her of Dutch citizenship.

The government turned on Ms Hirsi Ali after a television documentary reported that she had secured Dutch citizenship in 1997 by making up a story that she had fled an arranged marriage in Somalia. Members of Ms Hirsi Ali's family told the Zembla television programme last Thursday that they had no knowledge of an arranged marriage.

The 30-minute programme also questioned her claims that she fled wartorn Somalia. It said that she lived in a comfortable family home in Kenya for 12 years before she sought refugee status in the Netherlands in 1992.

Ms Hirsi Ali, 36, whose real name is Hirsi Magan, admitted in the programme that she lied about her name, age and how she came to the Netherlands. Rather than travelling directly from Somalia, as she originally claimed, Ms Hirsi Ali arrived via Kenya and Germany.

Over the weekend she dismissed the political furore. "Have they all gone mad? Yes, I did lie to get asylum in Holland. This is public knowledge since at least September 2002," she told the Associated Press.

The television programme has rocked the Dutch political establishment because Ms Hirsi Ali became one of the country's most prominent politicians after denouncing radical Islam. She became famous internationally after writing the screenplay for a film which featured naked women with verses from the Koran painted on their bodies. Theo Van Gogh, the film's director, was murdered by a radical Islamist.

A member of the hard-right VVD party, which wants to impose restrictions on the number of immigrants, Ms Hirsi Ali regularly criticises the treatment of Muslim women and attacks the Netherlands' liberal immigration policies. With her Muslim background, which she has renounced, Ms Hirsi Ali was an influential figure as the Netherlands debated the integration of Muslim immigrants.

The death of Van Gogh prompted many mainstream political leaders to voice fears that the country's liberal traditions were being threatened by Muslims who refused to integrate. Ms Hirsi Ali, who dismisses such politicians for failing to acknowledge the threat posed by Islamists, has provided useful political cover for the VVD party. Its leaders use her membership to deny accusations of racism.

But political allies quickly turned on Ms Hirsi Ali after last week's television programme.

Rita Verdonk, the country's immigration minister who hopes to be the VVD's candidate for prime minister in next year's general election, said she would launch an investigation into Ms Hirsi Ali's citizenship. "Laws and rules are valid for everyone," she was quoted as saying by the Dutch news agency ANP. "I don't like lies."

Ms Hirsi Ali will today pre-empt Ms Verdonk. The Volkskrant newspaper reported yesterday that she would start working for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in September after receiving assurances from the US authorities about her security.

A source close to the outgoing MP indicated she would come out fighting when she appears before the press in The Hague today and insist that she has been planning a move for some time. A recent court ruling that she would have to leave her flat - after fellow residents claimed that her presence threatened security - and the threat to her citizenship reportedly persuaded her to move. "Ayaan is definitely not going to say sorry," the source said.

Backstory

Ayaan Hirsi Ali became one of the main figures in the Dutch debate about Muslim integration that was kicked off by her friend Pim Fortuyn, who warned that liberal traditions were being threatened by the "backwards culture" of Islam. The debate intensified - after Fortuyn was killed by an animal rights activist - when an Islamist murdered another of Hirsi Ali's friends, the director Theo van Gogh. The success of Fortuyn's party and horror at the death of Van Gogh have changed the terms of debate. Mainstream politicians regularly call on Muslims to do more to integrate.

see also: Critic of Islam is exposed on claim of asylum
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2181930,00.html



12 May 2006

Liberals don't care Hirsi Ali lied to get asylum in 1992

 http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id==1&story_id=)954&RSS

Hirsi Ali shot to fame in 2002 when her criticism of aspects of Islam and the treatment of women in Muslim societies led to death threats. She joined the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD) and was elected to parliament in 2003.

She wrote the scripts for the short film Submission which featured semi-naked women taking about mistreatment under Islam. The director Theo van Gogh was murdered in November 2004 for helping her to make the movie.


AMSTERDAM — Somali-born MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali may have told more lies about her past in order to get asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 than she has previously admitted, news programme Zembla has suggested.

Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk said on Friday that Hirsi Ali need not worry about facing repercussions for what she did 14 years ago. But she repeated she would have deported Hirsi Ali if she had been the minister back in 1992. "I don't like lies," Verdonk said on Friday.

Hirsi Ali shot to fame in 2002 when her criticism of aspects of Islam and the treatment of women in Muslim societies led to death threats. She joined the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD) and was elected to parliament in 2003.

She wrote the scripts for the short film Submission which featured semi-naked women taking about mistreatment under Islam. The director Theo van Gogh was murdered in November 2004 for helping her to make the movie.

Thursday's edition of Zembla retraced Hirsi Ali's journey from Somalia, via Kenya, to the Netherlands and uncovered both well-documented and previously unreported inconsistencies in her story.

Interviews with her brother, aunt and ex-husband raised doubts about Hirsi Ali's contention she fled to Europe to escape possible retribution from her family for not going through with an arranged marriage. Her relatives contradicted her claim that she was not present during the wedding to the Canadian-Somali man.

Hirsi Ali said she was forced to marry a stranger but her ex-husband said they had been in love and spent the week together after the wedding. He then went back to Canada to prepare for her arrival. Supplied with a plane ticket, Hirsi Ali later arrived in Germany and took a train to Amsterdam rather than continue the planned journey to Canada.

She has for years admitted she made up parts of her story to get asylum in the Netherlands but she insisted to Zembla her relatives and ex-husband were lying in regard to some of the details.

The programme-makers said it was decided to look into her past because of differing accounts she has given over the years about her past.

Hirsi Ali said she came clean about the lies she told to get asylum when she joined the Liberal Party (VVD) in 2002. Yet prominent VVDer (and now EU Commissioner) Neelie Kroes described Hirsi Ali as a person who had lived through five civil wars in Somalia. This was not true as Hirsi Ali lived in Kenya for over 10 years before coming to the Netherlands.

A spokesperson for the VVD said the party had been aware that Hirsi Ali lied about her name and date of birth when seeking asylum. This was not seen as a barrier to her joining the party or becoming one of its MPs.

Her real name is Hirsi Magan. Her father was an opponent of the regime in Somalia and was jailed there. Hirsi Ali and her brother were sent to Kenya where she lived from the age of 10 to 22.

Other Somalis living as refugees in Kenya were refused asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 because Kenya was considered a safe country. Hirsi Ali, who had refugee status in Kenya, told Dutch immigration officials she was fleeing from Somali. She was granted asylum within five weeks, an apparent record.

Zembla showed footage of Hirsi Ali in a documentary made the Dutch Muslim broadcaster only months after she was supposedly in hiding for fear of retribution from her family. It also emerged she was in contact with her father and on one occasion her jilted husband came to see her in the Netherlands. He left without harming her when she made it clear she did not want to continue with the marriage.

The MP's spokesperson said there was nothing new in the documentary and noted Zembla had chosen not to include other issues about her past, including her claims to be undergone female circumcision as a young girl.

Former Immigration Minister Hilbrand Nawijn called for Hirsi Ali to be stripped of Dutch nationally and deported. He was head of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) when Hirsi Ali applied for asylum.

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