The Low Country

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an "author and a politician who has made the transition from early Islamic fanaticism (she initially endorsed the fatwa against Salman Rushdie) to a full-out acceptance and advocacy of secularism and of Enlightenment ideals," has been evicted from her home, placed under house arrest, and now is about to be stripped of her citizenship.  This is in:

a.    Iraq;
b.    Iran;
c.    Cuba;
d.    North Korea;
e.    Holland. 

You guessed it from the build-up.  The Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament is about to be kicked out of the land of wind mills and wooden shoes.  Christopher Hitchens has the story.  Fortunately for Ms. Hirsi Ali, there is still a place in the world where her kind of courage is not punished.  She will take up a post in Washington D.C., at the conservative American Enterprize Institute.