Via Expatica.com:
AMSTERDAM — Liberal Party MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been ordered to vacate the high-security home she is renting in The Hague within four months.
An appeal court sided with her neighbours who complained her presence put their own safety at risk and caused disruption to their lives. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner broke the news of the court decision at an EU meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday.
Somali-born Hirsi Ali is known as a critic of aspects of Islam and she went into hiding in November 2004 when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered. They had finished work shortly before his murder on Submission, a short film about the ill-treatment of women under Islam.
Hirsi Ali and fellow MP Geert Wilders spent several months in hiding in secret locations due to death threats made against them because of their stance on Islam. “I think this is dreadful, horrible to have to move. I am happy living here and I feel safe,” Hirsi Ali said in response to the judgement.
The neighbours lost their case initially but they won on Thursday when an appeal court accepted Hirsi Ali’s presence meant they no longer felt safe in their own apartments or in the communal areas of the complex. The court ruled that is contravened Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights which guarantees respect for a person’s private and family life.
The Dutch State had contravened these rights by moving to the apartment complex without seeking their consent and without taking measures to diminish the neighbours’ valid fears, the court said.
A few things. Firstly, it should be noted that Hirsi Ali is now booted out of her own house by virtue of the European Treaty for Human Rights which does indeed supersede Dutch law. Many cases are adjudicated by referring to this treaty, but given the subject matter here I would say: Euroskeptics, go knock yourselves out.
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The State may appeal this ruling, in which case it will go to the Dutch Supreme Court. The potential of a ruling that will favor Hirsi Ali and is able to address the upset neighbors may turn out to become a costly adventure for Dutch authorities as it is not just about one outspoken member of parliament. Beyond a number of politicians there is a growing constituency of writers, artists and cartoonists who may rightfully claim government protection. And in most cases their neighbors are equally likely to take a less than charitable view of their right to exercise free speech. This is once more evidence of how Europeans fail to understand the bigger picture and are more than willing to let some short term comfort prevail over the long term survival of core values that built their societies in the first place.
So there are no winners here. The neighborhood is unmasked as a group whose shallow self interest is paramount, the State may have made a few mistakes and will have to spend yet more on security and Ayaan, well, she remains the hunted one. It seems that those responsible for threatening her will have the last laugh.
Let’s hope not.
Hat tip: Blogs For Bush
Others blogging about this: Andrew Stuttaford at NRO’s “The Corner” blog, Done With Mirrors, AllahPundit at HotAir, Blue Crab Boulevard
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- Let this sink into your consciousness, if you had any doubts left as to where “Progressives” and their Dhimmitude/Appeasement will lead to. One of the Marxist models is to try to set groups against one another, so you don’t have to fight them, they fight themselves. Watch for repeated episodes of gender, race, and class warfare, and you’ll know whos behind it.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 4/30/2006 - 10:38 am
As my buds would say, “This is a gnarly situation”. The concept of, “divide and conquer”, is as old as the hills and to assign it to Marx or Progressives is just plain ignorant. Peace
Comment by steve @ 4/30/2006 - 11:14 am
Ironic, is it not? The Eurotopians will not stand up to the Islamofascists when they threaten the safety and well-being of people living in Europe (forget about Iraq and elsewhere). But they will harass a brave woman who speaks out against the poor treatment of women under Islam - and harass her in the sacred name of human rights.
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi @ 4/30/2006 - 4:00 pm
I wish the American press would pay closer attention to the violent blackmale that is Islam. Thanks for bringing this to light ST.
Comment by kevin @ 4/30/2006 - 5:40 pm
- Back at the old post “speaking silacious anti-American lies to power” again huh Steve. Guess you just can’t keep that OCS under control. Liberty
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 4/30/2006 - 6:59 pm
So… in Europe, speaking the truth costs you the freedom to live where you want? Maybe if she says something bad about America they will give her her freedoms back. Kind of like atoning for telling the truth about Islam
Comment by blogagog @ 5/1/2006 - 9:14 am
Noella, no you just did. Keyboard commandoes like you, steve(FSMB), and andrew aren’t making any converts over here. You just reforce what we see is wrong with liberals.
Comment by PCD @ 5/2/2006 - 8:24 am
Sister the 5/1/2006 11:36 Poster Noella puposely insults Bang by adding “small penis” to Bang’s post that he quotes. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/2/2006 - 10:11 am
Right, those “tolerant”, “non-hateful” liberals resort to name calling Lorica.
Isn’t it beautiful to see inside their soles?
Comment by Baklava @ 5/2/2006 - 10:32 am
*Chuckle* - No doubt No-jello was projecting deep feelings of “shortness”.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 5/2/2006 - 10:35 am
You ripped her off Bang!
Comment by Baklava @ 5/2/2006 - 10:38 am
Humor and stupidity. The Islamofascists, want everyone in the world to hate the USA. Instead millions of undocumented workers(the Right wants to call them illegal aliens), take to the streets and ask to be made American citizens because they love America. What does the Rightwing of the Republican Party do? It shouts,”He1l No!” at the top of its lungs. Looks like the Rightwing in America is making enemies, just like Bin Laden and the rest of the Islamo-radical warmongers want. Edited - insult.. Peace
Comment by steve @ 5/2/2006 - 11:15 am
Wow Bang now liberals can give a person a physical over the internet?
Comment by Jim M @ 5/2/2006 - 11:41 am
- Which is kind of funny when you think about it Jim, because most hard leftist moonbats that I know can’t even find their own asses with both hands, a map, a flashlight, and a company of Marines….
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 5/2/2006 - 12:38 pm
Most people project what they lack or envy when they attack others….
What this says about Noella, you decide.
Comment by sanity @ 5/2/2006 - 1:07 pm
That’s cause the Marine company doesn’t really want to find the arse of a leftist, for obvious reasons.
Yes it is always enjoyable when our friends on the left show their “dark side”. This is the very reason that I don’t believe polls. You see, they talk about that which they cannot possibly know, as if they were experts. That which they do know, isn’t even remotely close to reality, usually some sort of drug induced foolishness, thus it is truly unimportant. Excepting to themselves, who are so full of their own greatness, that it is hard for them to fit their ego into an elevator.
Comment by Lorica @ 5/2/2006 - 1:11 pm
Lorica,
Remember Leo’s (Tommy Chong) advice to Fez, “Get a job, Dope Head!” I think it fits moste of the protesting malcontents who do have American citizenship.
Comment by PCD @ 5/2/2006 - 1:45 pm
Hey steve,
Since your against secrets and pro undocumented worker (great politically correct name, by the way), why don’t you publish your address and we can send 10 or 20 to live with you???
How about it?
Comment by NC Cop @ 5/2/2006 - 7:32 pm
- For the latest in the Joe “My CIA Wife” Wilson moonbat scam read here. Its an update on the latest Libby filings for motion. Every day that Fitzgerald stonewalls gets him closer to the Toaster oven.
- I’m going to really enjoy watching the Liberal meltdown when this “AnythingGate” crashes and burns on their heads.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 5/2/2006 - 8:53 pm
PCD I don’t watch the show much, and I only thought that some of the scenes where they are getting stoned were funny because they come up with such assnine thoughts. Sounds like our good lefties. Doobage in hand, thinking “that Castro is just a great guy, I bet he gets great doobage, we should try to be his best friend.” It seems to be such a norm for these extremists. I don’t know I keep hoping they come to their senses. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/2/2006 - 11:25 pm
Steve if they are undocumented they are illegal. It is only common sense. If I as a Federal Employee were to be “undocumented” in Mexico, I could be jailed as a spy. Hmmmmmmm Seems “IF it is sauce for the Gander, it is Sauce for the Goose”, it is only logical. But then like so many on your side, logic and common sense escape you. Good Luck - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/2/2006 - 11:34 pm
Lorica, just picture Tommy Chong, king of the dope heads, saying, “Get a job, Dope Head!” That in and of itself is masterfully funny. An older dope head mindlessly repeating the advice his father gave to him to a younger dope head.
Lorica, I grew up in Green Bay. The 70’s show takes place in Milwaukee. The writers do have a handle of 70’s Milwaukee, except for no references to AMC or Blatz or Schlitz beer.
Comment by PCD @ 5/3/2006 - 7:49 am
LOL
I do think that thought is funny. It amazes me how the man I didn’t want to be is exactly the man I am becoming. Only with alot few children. Dad had 4 kids by his 30th birthday. I am still waiting on my 1st and I turn 43 on Saturday. YAY FOR ME!!!! 
I keep telling all my friends, especially my single female aquintances, “Like a bottle of fine wine, I just keep getting better with age!!” That’s my story and I am sticking to it. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 5/3/2006 - 10:14 am