Great Expectations Go Bust

Dutch liberals embrace the conservative concept of personal responsibility...for someone else facing death threats. It's all Ayaan Hirsi Ali's fault you see. Anne Applebaum, WaPo:

Last week, the Dutch government abruptly cut off her security funding, forcing her to return briefly to Holland.

The reasons given were financial, but there was clearly more to it. To put it bluntly, many in Holland find her too loud, too public in her condemnation of radical Islam. She doesn't sound conciliatory, in the modern continental fashion. Compare her description of Islam as "brutal, bigoted, fixated on controlling women" with the German judge who, citing the Koran, in January told a Muslim woman trying to obtain a divorce from her violent husband that she should have "expected" her husband to deploy the corporal punishment his religion approves. Hirsi Ali herself says she is often told, in so many words, that she's "brought her problems on herself." Now the Dutch prime minister openly says he wants her to deal with them alone.

Ah yes, liberals always sympathize with the victim...unless it's too personally risky...for them. Great expectations from liberals go bust again.

Here in the US the private sector volunteers to protect Hirsi Ali.

In related news, I suppose in this ugly Congressional climate next some Dem trial lawyers may try to sue her and her security guards for some reason:

Questioning by Democrats seemingly came straight from Callahan's legal briefs. Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky called the Fallujah operation an "infamous mission fraught with mistakes of the Blackwater supervisors." Democrats ventured into broader questions of whether private firms should function in war zones, though they did not make clear who would guard State Department personnel and visiting members of Congress.

Now might be the time for Jan to raise that militia of hers. And how about inviting Hirsi Ali to your next power lunch, instead of ditzy, aging old stars.