Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the latest to find herself in the position of Salman Rushdie, under sentence of death from Muslim extremists, and therefore in need of security guards round the clock.(The Week)(Brief article)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the latest to find herself in the position of Salman Rushdie, under sentence of death from Muslim extremists, and therefore in need of security guards round the clock. This crisis arose because she had collaborated with Theo van Gogh on a film about the suffering of women in Islam. Afanatic butchered van Gogh in the street and warned that she would be murdered next. Since she is a Dutch citizen, the Dutch government has been paying the costs, apparently $2.8 million a year. That same Dutch government forced her to resign from parliament, and in effect dictated her move to a think tank in the United States. The Dutch ...