The multilingual Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage, put herself through university and got elected to the Dutch Parliament. Yet, her views confound not only Islamic extremists but the tolerant left. The former have issued a fatwa against her, while the latter attribute her stance as the result of the "trauma" she suffered as a Somali immigrant.
This is what she says: "You have to understand why people move, the type of people that move, how they do it, the expectations involved. It is about being in a small place somewhere in the world and thinking 'I want out'. It's about coming here and ending up in a kitchen, and being exploited, and having the choice of going back, but deciding to stay. And then you have to discover why these people want to say. And what you discover does not make you a chauvinist pig. If you understand that, you can really understand what globalisation is about, and adapt and modify migration laws.
"I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe. But that will only work if universal human rights are also adopted by the newcomers. And if they are not, then you run of the risk of losing what you have here, and what other people want when they come here, which is freedom."
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