It is good that she has spoken up.  Now, re. the requirement that Muslims in Europe abandon their 'Islamic or tribal codes', let us remember that Ayaan is on the record as having strongly advised the British, Dutch and US governments to NOT PERMIT the establishment of Islamic schools (whilst also stating categorically that there was no equivalent need to ban schools run by members of other faiths, e.g. by Jews and Christians, since these did NOT pose the same social and political threat as Muslim schools DO).  So let us hope that if, per miraculum, Mr Wilders does become the Netherlands PM, that Ms Hirsi Ali will reiterate to him that particular crucial piece of advice which she gave, unheeded, to his predecessors, and that he would screw up his courage and put it into practice.  It would set an excellent example for all non-Muslim governments world-wide.  

I recall vividly, too, Ayaan's account, in 'Infidel', of how the classic Western children's stories, and novels, both great literature and popular literature, fed her soul, once she learnt English in Kenya. I also recall her speaking at a Writers' Festival in Sydney, in praise of those books - yes, the Grimms' Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Anderson, the Enid Blytons and the Nancy Drews, as well as the Jane Austen and the translated Tolstoy and other classic works of literature, English and European - that she read for fun and/or formally studied in the school library and the classroom.  In "Infidel" it's clear that when she went to university, it was reading Dutch history - learning about their long hard struggle against the sea and against assorted would-be invaders - that helped her understand and indeed awakened a real love and admiration for her adopted homeland and its people.  She knows about Going Dutch and Going West.

Wilders could do worse, should he  gain power, than invite Ms Ayaan Hirsi Ali to return to the Netherlands, join his party and become...Education Minister.  Then Dutch schoolkids, whether of native or mmigrant origin, might find themselves reading all sorts of wonderful old-fashioned books of classic Dutch and European literature and history, and rediscovering some pride and joy in being Dutch, and  in being part of  the free 'Western' world.