Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the courageous Somali woman and former Dutch MP, was in Australia some years ago to launch her book. Among the other MPs at the swanky lunch her publisher put on were myself, the not-quite Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott, and Julie Bishop. Ms Bishop hadn’t yet read Ali’s book, and seemed unfamiliar with the issue of extremist Islam in Europe.
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