If you follow politics as well as you say, you know very well that the current government of the Netherlands is no more a reflection of the results of the last elections than Georges W. Bush was properly elected President of the US in 2000. I've read Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's biography on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali), and while I accept that she's a very brave person and she stands for a lot of good things, she has been very foolish, and now it's catching up with her. If she lied about her identity with the Dutch Immigration Services, she should have kept it to herself. The rules of this service are very harsh (my cousin had a lot of problems to get his wife to the Netherlands, it took them several years before she was able to come from Singapore and they were allowed to get married) and she should have realized that as a politician she would make enemies who would exploit her every weakness. As to her problems with her neighbours, you have to admit that she is in a lot of danger, but she still didn't like the idea of staying in hiding. Again, that is very brave of her, but what if someone places a bomb in her house, and the neighbouring houses get blasted away? Imagine, if these are people with families and children, would you want to live next to her? And frankly, Fabio, how would you like it if one of your friends told you basically "if you don't want me to offend you, you should start manipulating your family until they all think like me". I'm aware that you have a bad temper, sometimes, and I'm willing to make allowances for you, but I have my limits.
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I've read Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's biography on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali), and while I accept that she's a very brave person and she stands for a lot of good things, she has been very foolish, and now it's catching up with her. If she lied about her identity with the Dutch Immigration Services, she should have kept it to herself. The rules of this service are very harsh (my cousin had a lot of problems to get his wife to the Netherlands, it took them several years before she was able to come from Singapore and they were allowed to get married) and she should have realized that as a politician she would make enemies who would exploit her every weakness. As to her problems with her neighbours, you have to admit that she is in a lot of danger, but she still didn't like the idea of staying in hiding. Again, that is very brave of her, but what if someone places a bomb in her house, and the neighbouring houses get blasted away? Imagine, if these are people with families and children, would you want to live next to her?
And frankly, Fabio, how would you like it if one of your friends told you basically "if you don't want me to offend you, you should start manipulating your family until they all think like me". I'm aware that you have a bad temper, sometimes, and I'm willing to make allowances for you, but I have my limits.