Ayaan Hirsi Ali is, a regular readers will know, one of the most interesting figures now active in politics in European. A relentless campaigner for secular values and women’s rights, she says nothing that that has not been said many times before on the continent of Voltaire, Tom Paine and John Stuart Mill. Despite that, as this article reminds us, she finds herself under attack from the very people who should be among her allies.

Amongst some on the left, it seems, the values of the Enlightenment are trumped by the pieties of multiculturalism.

Also check out the comments from the Norwegian human rights activist who believes that strict immigration controls are the best way to protect both “European values and Muslim women’s human rights.”

Interesting times.