Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hero, standing up against the Islamists who wish to wipe out Western civilization. Having rejected the Muslim faith of her birth, and having taken a stand for the rights of women (especially Muslim women) to equal human dignity, Hirsi Ali has become a target of the same ilk as the murderer of her colleague, Theo Van Gogh.

Now some of her opponents wish to see her stripped of her Dutch citizenship because she lied on an asylum application in 1992 -- a fact which has been public knowledge since 2002, when she was elected to the Dutch Parliament.

The latest political storm followed the airing of a 30-minute TV documentary Thursday tracing her steps from Somalia, where her father was an imprisoned opposition politician, to her family's exile in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya.

Hirsi Ali repeated on the TV documentary that when she arrived in 1992 she changed her name from Hirsi Magan and her birth date on her asylum application and did not tell the authorities that she had lived in three different countries since leaving Somalia.

"I invented a story that would be consistent with the conditions for asylum," she told The Associated Press.

I urge the US Congress to act now -- grant her US Citizenship for her important work on behalf of freedom, and guarantee her the freedom of speech, religion, and movement that she is denied in the Netherlands, where she is under constant guard by government security personnel and where a court recently ordered her out of her apartment because her presence constitutes a danger to her neighbors.

If we truly believe in human rights, it is the least we can do.

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