A Dutch friend (and usually reliable source) writes with more: “She’s an illegal alien, it turns out. 80% of the Dutch public thought that she ought to give up her parliamentary seat and 2/3rds thought that she should be stripped of her passport given that she lied to get in…There was a really nasty documentary [by some Leftist filmmakers] last week, a real hatchet job… Nevertheless, it seems pretty incontrovertible that she lied to get into the country. Under a strict interpretation, that means she ought to be stripped of her passport and kicked out of the country. Certainly, her political position has become untenable. The position of [Dutch immigration minister] Verdonk is that since Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not her real name (her real name apparently being Ayaan Hirsi Magan) she committed identity fraud. The law is fairly clear: this means automatically that such applicant never in fact became a Dutch citizen. A certain ‘Ayaan Hirsi Ali’ became a citizen, but such person does not exist. ‘Ayaan Hirsi Magan’ never became a citizen. Instead of being stripped of her citizenship, Verdonk has apparently written to Ayaan informing her that she was never a Dutch citizen. This would obviously have all kinds of consequences. Undoubtedly, this will end up in the High Court. I now understand that Ayaan will resign from Parliament effective tomorrow. Also, she will have six weeks to respond to the letter from Verdonk in which it is said she was never a Dutch citizen.” My friend, who’s somewhat more to the right than Ayaan Hirsi Ali (in many respects she’s a fairly conventional liberal) adds this: “She is of course very courageous. She never fit in in Holland. She’ll be better off in the States.” And for Holland, that’s bad news indeed.