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Money Changes Everything

Salman Rushdie arguing for the Dutch government to provide Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch-Somali women’s rights activist, the perpetual, anywhere security from Islamic extremist terrorists she apparently was promised. 

Dutch business, I’m not sure I have an opinion. I’d say she’s better advised to be quit of the socialized Euro-security and launch a private fundraising campaign. I doubt it would take that long for such a cause, and there would be plenty who would host a link. This site, for example. Maybe lean on Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International to turn over part of their U.S.-bashing budget to a useful cause: assisting an actual victim of oppression. NOW might want to cough up dough for a sister advocate. Hollywood likes a strong Kirkwood, Thelma and Louise type, whatever, woman on the edge. Where’s Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron when you need them? At least until her bestselling autobiography “Infidel” gets turned into a major Academy Award-winning blockbuster, at which point she might be able to cover her own costs. Sean Penn used to be extremely concerned about the welfare of Muslims facing imminent attack, and he’s loaded. That article ran, conveniently, in the LA Times.

Here’s a thought. Maybe CAIR, dedicated to protecting the rights of Muslims, will foot the entire bill. 

I’m not kidding, by the way.  Screw the Dutch parliament.  How about a campaign to help this woman, targeting all of the above, as well as those of us who might share her views. There are organizations that claim to be dedicated to women’s rights, freedom of speech, human rights that should be able to fire that up in the morning. 

Meanwhile, Salman, where do we send the checks? Anyone out there know an agency that might donate or provide interim security on spec?

h/t my “brother-in-law” David and “sister” Danielle.

Topics: Europe, Islam

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:12 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2007

4 Responses to “Money Changes Everything”

1. Around The Sphere Blog Roundup October 10. 2007 » The Moderate Voice Says:
   October 10th, 2007 at 7:22 am

   [...] CHANGES EVERYTHING: Jules Crittenden looks at Salman Rushdie’s attempts to get security for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch-Somali women’s [...]

2. sarah rolph Says:
   October 10th, 2007 at 8:18 am

   I’m in.

3. Banjo Says:
   October 10th, 2007 at 8:52 am

   The Dutch have been gutless for a long time. Remember when their soldiers stood and watched in one of the Africa hellholes while one tribe butchered the other in wholesale numbers?

4. Michael Lonie Says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 12:34 am

   It wasn’t some African hellhole, it was in Europe. Specifically in Srebrenica, Bosnia, and a company of Dutch soldiers stood by while Serb irregulars massacred 8,000 or so Bosnian Muslims who had been told that the town was a security area for them. Later, much later, the Dutch government tried the company commander and gave him two years in prison for failing to fight. What they had not given him at the time, 1995, was ammunition to fight with.

   You know the Royal Navy used to refer to “The Dutch Courage” with respect, harkening back to the days when Dutch sailors fought to the end and then kept on fighting. In one battle between the RN and the Dutch in the late 1600s a Dutch admiral, when his ship had been overrun by English boarders, threw a torch into the magazine rather than let the English capture the ship. He actually survived, but it blew the upper deck, and all the Englishmen, off the ship. It was a Dutchman, Prince William III, who coined the phrase “to die in the last ditch” to tell some English diplomats how he intended to defend Holland against French invasion. Sic transit gloria mundi.

   Incidentally, the 9/11 attack planning began the year after the US intervened in Bosnia to stop the Serbs doing to the Bosnian Muslims what the Muslims want to do to Israel’s Jews. Srebrenica was the last straw for Bill Clinton, so he took the decision to intevene then. So 9/11, and the celebrations among Muslims over it, were the Muslim world’s response to the US intervening to save Muslims from their enemies.

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