Rita Verdonk has just driven the final nail into Ayaan Hirsi Ali's coffin by stating that the hunted ex-parliamentarian and fresh AEI-employee "cannot be deemed to have received the Dutch nationality". Arjan Dasselaar has the latest and concludes that it is indeed Hirsi Ali's own party that has put the dagger in her back. There is a difference between someone resigning over past mistakes and delivering the K.O. to someone who is already down. This is it and it is a pretty disgraceful spectacle. More comments later.

UPDATE: Leon de Winter is both appalled and embarrassed and I am getting lots of Dutch e-mails arguing that I was probably wise to leave the place behind a while ago. No one there believes things will get better anytime soon, if ever.