The Dutch authorities fear that “Submission 2,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s soon to be released new movie, might make the Netherlands a target of angry Muslims worldwide. The movie criticizes Muslims for their intolerance of gays. In a report published last Wednesday the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator (Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding, NCTb) warns that one must seriously take into account the possibility of an international Muslim boycott of the Netherlands, similar to the boycott of Denmark by the Islamic world earlier this year over the Muhammad cartoons.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali has stood at the white-hot center of the debate on Islam in Europe. She bluntly urged Muslim women to throw off their veils, and angered Muslims by linking Islam with terrorism.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Somali-born former member of parliament who resigned this week after admitting she lied on her asylum application 14 years ago will stay in the Netherlands until her citizenship is reviewed, her spokeswoman said Friday.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk may have brought an abrupt end to the political dreams of two women this week: those of a Somali-born lawmaker — and her own.

PARIS, May 17 — The Dutch immigration minister's decision to cancel the citizenship of a Somali-born Dutch legislator has set off a political storm in the Netherlands, with Parliament demanding that the move be revoked.

Since the political earthquake one year ago, when the voters of France and the Netherlands voted No to the European Union's constitutional treaty, most of the headlines have focused on the chaotic state of French politics. Yesterday was a reminder the Dutch are also undergoing an extraordinary period of national soul-searching in which attitudes to the EU, to immigration, and to religious tolerance and fundamentalism are all called into question.

AMSTERDAM — Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was compelled in the early hours of Wednesday morning to reconsider whether Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Dutch citizen.

The Dutch grapple with assimilating immigrants with radically different mores.

The following is a statement made by Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali upon her resignation from the House of Representatives.

PARIS, May 15 — The Dutch government on Monday abruptly threatened to revoke the citizenship of one of the country's most prominent members of Parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born woman who arrived as a refugee 14 years ago.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician who became a world-renowned critic of Islam, is to leave parliament and move to America after admitting that she had lied to win asylum in the Netherlands.

AMSTERDAM -- Liberal party MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is leaving the Dutch parliament in September and moving to the United States.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch legislator who has championed the rights of Muslim women, is returning from a book tour to a firestorm for lying on her asylum application when she fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - She breaks all Dutch molds. A former refugee from Somalia, she is a black face in the white crowd in parliament. She seeks blunt confrontation rather than the quiet consensus of traditional politics. In a country that used to pride itself on its free and easy ways, she lives under constant guard.

The Somali-born Dutch MP who describes herself as a "dissident of Islam" has backed the Danish newspaper that first printed the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

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