Hirsi Ali to quit parliament and the Netherlands - by Hans Andringa
Controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali looks set to leave the Netherlands. The conservative member of parliament will announce later this week that she is to move to the United States where - according to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant - she will be working for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C.
Ms Hirsi Ali's quitting of Dutch politics and the Netherlands follows on from a television documentary, shown last week, which reported that she lied in the early 1990s about how she fled her native country, Somalia, in order to gain asylum in the Netherlands. Since the broadcast, there have been calls from various quarters for her to lose her Dutch passport. Law Professor Gerard-René de Groot of Maastricht University says that the fact that someone furnished incorrect information when applying to become a Dutch citizen is sufficient reason for them to lose their passport
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