Quote from dddooo:
Ex-Dutch MP and Islamic critic Hirsi Ali seeks French nationality
Former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the target of death threats over criticism of radical Islam, said Sunday she has asked France to grant her citizenship
A prominent critic of Islam, Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay of the film Submission, a fictional study of abused Muslim women with scenes of near-naked women with Quranic texts engraved on their flesh.
The film's director, Theo van Gogh, was killed by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam in 2004. Hirsi Ali was threatened in a note left on his body. She now lives in the United States, guarded day and night...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952860.html
She should learn to use a gun, wear body armour, and stay in the US, ideally moving to Texas where she will actually have the legal right to shoot dead any crazed fundamentalists who try to attack her, and bystanders are much more likely to draw out weapons and start popping away to defend her.
In France she's going to be much less safe from Islamic extremists, and have less ability to use self-defence or to have bystanders help.
I also think it's a bad move to cater to extremists by chickening out. Not only do you lose self-respect and freedom, you endanger other outspoken people by caving in to extremism and thus encouraging further intimidation.
