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[John Kilduff]

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But if Ali had been in the USA rather than in Holland, she'd have been either shipped to Guantanamo as a terrorist, or deported as an illegal immigrant, not just evicted from her house, so the issue would never have arisen.

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She was THREATENED by terrorists; she wasn't one herself. Sent to Guantanamo? Don't insult your readers' intelligence please. If you're going to argue sensibly (as you did in most of your post) please spare the hyperbole; it really does detract from the rest of your points.

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And her eviction had nothing to do with property values. Rather, people felt that she was likely to attract terrorist activity in the area and so her 'bravery' actually posed a threat to their safety.

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No, her bravery didn't "pose a threat". The *terrorists* posed the threat. Would you also argue that a black person riding near the front of the bus (pre-Rosa Parks era) "posed a threat" to the other black passengers because Ku Klux Klansmen had made threats against black people "getting uppity" on buses? The Islamic terrorists (or the Klansmen) posed the threat, not the person standing up for their rights against the Islamist terrorist bigots or against the Klansman terrorist bigots. She (Ali) was merely standing up against terrorism and bigotry and the terrorist bigots threatened her for it.

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Presumably, you aren't suggesting that Americans don't take their security seriously? Because I travel to both countries regularly, and I know which of the two has the higher level of petty, over-the-top security checking and it isn't The Netherlands.

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I would think you are correct on that.