Hirsi Ali: Dutch Canceled Her Security Despite ‘Credible Threats’ in US

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This is shaking out exactly as I thought it would; it was the Dutch government who canceled Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s security in the United States—after she received death threats in the United States.

PARIS, Oct. 3 — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken Dutch critic of Islam who moved to the United States to escape death threats in the Netherlands, has returned there to fight a Dutch government plan to cut off financing for her bodyguards, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Ms. Hirsi Ali, who had been working in Washington, learned of the Dutch move only in recent days and flew to The Hague to meet security officials. Friends said she was staying at a secret address under Dutch police protection. She could not be reached. …

In the case of Ms. Hirsi Ali, the government also provided security for her while she lived in the Netherlands and traveled abroad. That arrangement continued for several months after she moved to the United States 13 months ago to become a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Subsequently the Netherlands paid for protection provided by an American security firm.

However, last December, she was warned in a letter from the Dutch minister of justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, that payment for her American bodyguards would end in July this year. That decision was revoked after Ms. Hirsi Ali received new credible death threats in the United States.

Several of her friends said she had been taken aback by the Justice Ministry’s decision to halt payments as of Oct. 1. They said it had prompted her to cancel several scheduled events in New York and leave hastily for the Netherlands.

In his letter to Ms. Hirsi Ali last December, the minister wrote, “While you are living in the U.S. the Dutch government has no responsibility for your protection in the U.S.” So far this week, the ministry has offered no further explanation.

(Hat tip: Allahpundit.)

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