What is more, politeness in the face of systematic horror is not only irrelevant, it is positively counterproductive. Too much time has been spent being polite to the Dutch and their fellow mass murderers in Belgium, Norway, Oregon, and soon Spain. To be polite to people who have deliberately committed themselves to the abomination of systematized murder is to do them a disfavour: to preserve them in the delusion that what they are doing is nothing special, that they have not crossed the line between selfishness and atrocity, that what they do is something that can be discussed in a light and polite tone, like a change in accounting practice or administrative law. It is not: it is mass murder. Get that through your head. As for the betrayal of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I suggest you read Bernard Levin's memorable essays on Solzhenitsyn and reflect a little on moral treachery.