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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. At the age of five, following… Read More
For the program Foreign Correspondent the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC visits the Netherlands for an in depth reportage about the status of the Dutch multicultural society. A so called black school (with a majority of pupils with a migrant… Read More
After the sensational win of the new populist party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) from the gay politician Pim Fortuyn and after his brutal assassination on the 6th of May 2002, the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC travels to the Netherlands… Read More
On 6 May 2002, at age 54, populist gay politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by gunshot in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf. The attack took place in a car park outside a public radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview…. Read More
Since Dutch politician, columnist, writer and ‘public gay’ Pim Fortuyn won one third of the votes in the city of Rotterdam in the Dutch local elections early March with his party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), he is one of the mayor players in the Dutch… Read More