My friends at The Augean Stables nail it once again:

Anyone who thinks that Holland “woke up” after Theo Van Gogh’s murder needs to rethink. Not only was it the “progressive camp” that did Ali in politically, and her good, cautious, bourgeois neighbors who wanted her out lest they share in the dangers she ran, but that segment of the population that supposedly did wake up has done little to nothing to save her.

It were the neighbours who represent more than anything else the self-induced sleep that Hirsi Ali's former countrymen appear to prefer. So much that they were willing to go through the trouble of using the courts to allow them to stay asleep.

While you're at the stables, make sure to also check out Richard Landes' account of Hirsi Ali's recent visit to Harvard.