George Will has a good column on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Islamic dissident and former member of the Dutch parliament who was forced out of her adopted country:


“Holland evidently tolerates everything except skepticism about the sacramental nature of multiculturalism. One million of the country’s 16 million residents are Muslims, and the political left has appropriated the European right’s traditional celebration of identity grounded in racial and ethnic traditions and culture. But the recoil of many Dutch people from Hirsi Ali suggests that the tolerance about which Holland preens is a compound of intellectual sloth and moral timidity. She was more trouble than the Dutch evidently think free speech is worth.”