Ayaan Hirsi Ali Update

Peaktalk is reporting that Minister of Immigration Verdonk has been forced to reconsider her decision to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Dutch Citizenship. It also appears that Verdonk has destroyed her own political career in the process of attempting to pull off her little power play. It appears that Verdonk was trying to get herself a tough image as the Dutch Iron Lady.

Whoops. Methinks she's a bit rusty right now….

UPDATE: Article from Spiegel which appears to have been written prior to the latest developments. It has some good reaction from various people, though. I think this was a black eye for the Dutch and I think a lot of people are unhappy about it. Talk about a bad move.

Then she switches on the TV set. The parliament is currently debating her case, and each MP who takes to the podium has nothing but criticism for the immigration minister's approach, especially her "snelheid," or speed. The parliamentary leader of the Party for Freedom and Democracy, Willibrord van Beek, asks: "Why now? Why Ali? Why this way?" Geert Wilders, an independent MP, says: "This is a dark day for our democracy."