More background on this story from my friend:

(1) Verdonk is running for the leadership of the VVD [the free market liberal party] party (against a much more moderate candidate); if she wins she will turn the VVD right-ward, into a Fortuyn-like direction. (2) Recently, she threw a young high school student from Kosovo out of the country, a certain Taida Pasic. Very bright girl, very good grades, speaks fluent Dutch after having been here only five years, because she lied in her asylum application. There was a national uproar about this for weeks, with the country divided in pro- and contra-Taida factions. Verdonk leading the latter faction. The Left was in uproar, the VVD supported Verdonk. (3). Ayaan was originally a member of the Labour party and worked for its think tank. She left the Labour party unexpectedly to stand for parliament as a VVD-member. That’s unheard of in the Dutch political context: it’s very much like switching from Labour to Tory. Obviously, the Left has felt betrayed by her ever since. The TV-station that aired the anti-Ayaan documentary is essentially the Labour-station. This way, they destroyed both Ayaan who betrayed them and the VVD which blocked their desire to keep Taida in the country. This was pay-back.