You may have missed one or two of the things I said about Berlu-scummy. But scummy though he is, he welcomed to Italy the persecuted Afghani convert to Christianity, Abdel Rahman, and committed his government to protecting the Egyptian journalist, now an Italian citizen, Magdi Allam. Compare and contrast. I would have thought incredible that anyone would manage to make Berlusconi look good, but Verdonk and Balkenende and the gutless ordinary Dutch citizens who went to law to drive Hirsi Ali from their homes managed that nearly-impossible enterprise.