{"id":650,"date":"2006-05-15T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/15\/ayaan_hirsi_jumps_before_shes_pushed"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:17:54","slug":"ayaan_hirsi_jumps_before_shes_pushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/15\/ayaan_hirsi_jumps_before_shes_pushed","title":{"rendered":"Ayaan Hirsi jumps before she&#8217;s pushed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Belfast Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/story.jsp?story=691097\">Belfast Telegraph: MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/hijabimadness.blogspot.com\/2006_05_01_hijabimadness_archive.html#114771664144796169\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A Dutch TV documentary has alleged that Ayaan Hirsi Ali told a number of lies in order to gain asylum in the Netherlands, including that she had fled from a violent arranged marriage; it has also claimed that she had not come from war-torn Somalia, as she had claimed, but had lived a comfortable middle-class life in Kenya for twelve years before moving to the Netherlands, and did not flee her marriage, but rather she and her husband parted amicably.  (More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&amp;story_id=29999&amp;name=Kroes+&#39;didn&#39;t+know&#39;+about+MP&#39;s+lies\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&amp;story_id=29954&amp;name=Liberals+don&#39;t+care+Hirsi+Ali+lied+to+get+asylum+in+1992\">here<\/a> from the Dutch news source Expatica, which also reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&amp;story_id=30003&amp;name=Hirsi+Ali+to+leave+Netherlands+for+job+with+US+think+tank+\">one hour ago<\/a> that Hirsi Ali is to move to the USA to work with the American Enterprise Institute, which &quot;is seen as one of the most important advisors to the government of George Bush&quot;, demonstrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/04\/shoddy_joe_kaufman_cuts_my_wor\">as with the Joe Kaufman \/ Danya Shakfeh affair<\/a> of two months ago that the US right are somewhat unscrupulous in who they indulge &#8211; given that it appears that AYH&#39;s whole career is based on a bogus sob story, you would think they would be more circumspect about employing her.  Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/more\/archives\/week_2006_05_14.php#002537\">A Few Euros More<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/drmaxtor.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/surprise-ayaan-hirsi-ali-is-exposed-as.html\">Dr M&#39;s Analysis<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamophobia-watch.com\/islamophobia-watch\/2006\/5\/15\/ayaan-hirsi-alis-lies.html\">PhobeWatch<\/a> has a few more links. Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ayaan+hirsi+ali\" rel=\"tag\">ayaan hirsi ali<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/netherlands\" rel=\"tag\">netherlands<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 6:11pm:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&#038;story_id=30005&#038;name=Hirsi+Ali+-+reactions\">also from Expatica<\/a>, the AEI is said to be a very conservative institution with a lot of religiously-minded people in it who are highly unlikely to approve of &quot;Dutch&quot; positions on euthanasia, homosexuality and abortion.  Researcher Peter van Ham suggests that Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be out of place and &quot;feel totally claustrophobic there&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast Telegraph: MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum (also here) A Dutch TV documentary has alleged that Ayaan Hirsi Ali told a number of lies in order to gain&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-windbags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42462,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/42462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}