Lying Liar

Famous Islamophobe and everyone's favourite Somali reactionary, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has quit as a Dutch MP.

She was forced to resign because it was revealed that she had lied on her asylum application when entering Holland. She said she had come straight from Somalia, when in fact she hadn't - she had been in 3 other countries before her entry into Holland. Her Dutch citizenship is being revoked as a result. She also lied about her age and her name.

For obvious reasons, Miss Ali is a darling of the racist right and the pro-war Left. Her story was that she fled an arranged marriage and the rampant "persecution of women" in Islamic societies, and had now become a devout (angry at god) atheist and "critic" of Islam. She worked with useless, dead filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh, on his 2004 film 'Submission', which highlighted the plight of "abused women".

In fact, a recent Dutch documentary claimed, Hirsi Ali's marriage was quite consensual and it also revealed other interesting facts about her past, like the fact that she fled Somalia before the civil war, not as a result of it, like she has claimed.

In good news, she's getting a cushy new job at the American Enterprise Institute, a 'think tank' (frankly, I doubt there's much thinking going on there at all) which states that its goal is to:

"Defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism--limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate."

Well, I think I speak for most reasonable people when I say that the AEI and Saint Ayaan deserve each other.