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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rita Verdonk
		Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk (born 18 October 1955) is a Dutch politician, currently serving as the Minister without Portfolio for Integration and Immigration in the current government.
		Some observed that Verdonk had never held outspoken left-wing ideals (and was a critic of communist regimes), others hypothesized that it was part of a growing-up phase, while a former treasurer of the BWO suspected that Verdonk had been a police informer all those years.
		Rita Verdonk was advised by Kay van der Linden, who also played a part in populist anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn's 2002 election campaign, which was cut short by his assassination on May 6.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Rita_Verdonk (2518 words)

	Rita Verdonk dented by Hirsi Ali affair - Boston.com
		On Monday, Verdonk informed Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who gained prominence with her blunt criticism of fundamentalist Islam and for defending the rights of Muslim women, that her citizenship was invalid because she had lied on her asylum application in 1992.
		Verdonk, a criminologist and former deputy prison warden, claimed she was simply applying Dutch law.
		Verdonk, too, is under heavy personal security, and has confessed the protection is a burden on her husband and three children.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/05/18/rita_verdonk_dented_by_hirsi_ali_affair?mode=PF (921 words)

	Rita Verdonk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verdonk is a member of the liberal VVD party and also serves as member of parliament for this party.
		Verdonks eviction policies were criticised in the tv series 26 000 gezichten (26 000 faces), in which the personal lives of these people were shown, in the hope that public opinion would change if people were to see that these were also friendly, ordinary people.
		In December 2006, Verdonk was elected 'worst politician' by her colleague members of parliament, in a poll by the current affairs television program Een Vandaag, qualifying her as an 'elephant in a china cabinet' (a Dutch expression), ruthless and incompetent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rita_Verdonk (3355 words)

	Western Resistance: Holland: Dispute Over Islam Critic Causes Government To Fall
		Verdonk, nicknamed "Iron Rita" claimed that she did not know that Hirsi Ali had lied, and on May 15, she said that Hirsi Ali would lose her Dutch citizenship, unless she could provide a good reason within six weeks.
		Verdonk (pictured, top), as we reported on Tuesday attempted to redeem herself by producing a letter, signed by Hirsi Ali, in which it was stated that it was usual in Somalia to adopt the name of a grandfather (Ali was the name of Hirsi Ali's grandfather).
		Rita Verdonk, shown having her invitation to a handshake being refused by an imam at a mosque she visited last year, was a tough Minister, and had formerly been a prison officer.
	www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/002444.html (1121 words)

	Dutch Integration Minister Rita Verdonk moves to deport gay Iranians - CHALLENGE \| Liberty & Security
		The Netherlands’ Alien Affairs and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk, has recently sent a letter to Parliament informing the legislators that the government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has decided to end the freeze on deportation of gay Iranian refugees.
		Rita Verdonk stated that «it appears that there are no cases of an execution on the basis of the sole fact that someone is homosexual...
		After the protest from Dutch political parties and gay rights groups against her deportation plan, Rita Verdonk asserted that she would judge each case individually, nonetheless stating in a letter to the Dutch Parliament that she would not stop returning Christian failed asylum seekers to Iran.
	libertysecurity.org /article847.html (681 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This led the minister of Integration Rita Verdonk to investigate the status of Hirsi Ali's citizenship and in a stunningly inept investigation of 24 hours Verdonk concluded Hirsi Ali's citizenship was therefore unjustified and should be revoked.
		Verdonk's announcement had immediate consequences: Hirsi Ali, being an official member of Parliament, of Verdonk's own VVD party no less, resigned her membership and sped up her plan to leave the Netherlands permanently and start working for the ultra-conservative American Enterprise Institute in the USA.
		Verdonk, and the Dutch government with it, have been shown (again) they're hell-bent to keep in power until the elections and are willing to sacrifice their own morals about which they preach so highly.
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/6/27/213717/032 (2360 words)

	Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk's ministerial office (Iron Rita under fire - literally) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		AMSTERDAM — A shot was fired recently at the window of the office used by Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk.
		RTL claimed that as a result of the shooting incident, Verdonk wore a bullet-proof vest when she attended a commemoration for filmmaker Theo van AntGogh on Wednesday.
		Verdonk has had personal security for some time as a result of threats made against her.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1515492/posts (408 words)

	Rita Verdonk Dented by Hirsi Ali Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk may have brought an abrupt end to the political dreams of two women this week: those of a Somali-born lawmaker — and her own.
		Rita Verdonk is often referred to as ‘Iron Rita,’ due to her tough stance against those who seek refuge in the Netherlands.
		Verdonk’s polices are, in large part, a reflection of the frustration over immigrants who refuse to integrate into Dutch society.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /14692/rita-verdonk-dented-by-hirsi-ali-affair (1393 words)

	Government.nl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maria Cornelia Frederika (Rita) Verdonk was born in Utrecht on 18 October 1955.
		After completing her secondary education, Ms Verdonk studied sociology at Nijmegen University, specialising in criminology and organisational sociology.
		Ms Verdonk was appointed Minister for Immigration and Integration in the second Balkenende government on 27 May 2003.
	www.government.nl /bewindslieden/cabinet/minverdonk.jsp (210 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Press Review 18 May 2006
		The debate was about Dutch Integration Minister Rita Verdonk's decision to revoke the citizenship of the controversial Somali-born politician, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
		In an editorial, entitled "Lame duck Verdonk", NRC Handelsblad writes that "by ordering Verdonk to carry out a new investigation into Hirsi Ali's naturalisation, but this time in a thorough and meticulous way, the parliament delivered a major political blow to the minister.
		But now it seems that the limits of Verdonk's political actions are appearing on the horizon," concludes the paper.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /pr/pr060518 (795 words)

	Je maintiendrai \| MetaFilter
		Verdonk's open letter clearly shows the problem with her: she starts from an unimpeachable principle (that it is better for the immigrants themselves, and even more for their children, to learn the language), then drives off into cloud-cuckoo land.
		Verdonk does not realize how annoying it is to hear your language butchered by someone who doesn't speak it well, but would be mandated to do so anyway.
		Responding to the actual subject of the post, however, being one of the less undesirable kind of foreigners in Verdonk's view I have only had to deal with the chronic delays is residence permit processing mentioned in the last article.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/48754 (2913 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		The response of Rita Verdonk, the minister of Integration - who already had to face two votes of no confidence against her in parliament, which she survived by a hair's breadth - must be one of the fastest U-turns in political history.
		Verdonk had informed the prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, prior to the investigation and prior to the release of the announcement.
		And it so appears that Rita Verdonk, although proudly VVD member herself, has not once sent an e-mail to Ayaan Hirsi Ali during her period as minister on Integration - which she declared angrily in her response to expressed disbelief by the opposition that Verdonk would not be aware of Ayaan's e-mail address.
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/5/16/19256/0430 (4637 words)

	Dutch Parliament Halts Deportations :: WRAL.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verdonk said her party backed off its threat to quit "in the interests of ruling the country." But she added: "It was a bizarre, fl day yesterday."
		Verdonk, 51, a former prison warden, became the voice of many anti-immigrant Dutch in 2004, after filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic radical of Moroccan ancestry.
		Verdonk passed a raft of laws hiking visa fees, mandating citizenship classes for immigrants, and jailing asylum seekers declared illegal ahead of their deportation.
	www.wraltv.com /news/national_world/world/story/1106847 (718 words)

	WaarMaarRaar.nl - Rita Verdonk
		Verdonk voert de wet uit doet ze dat niet zit ze ook fout.
		Dat er desondanks formulieren naar Congo gingen waarop het aangevinkte hokje 'asiel' niet was afgeplakt, noemde Visser "ernstig" en "bepaald niet professioneel".
		Dat zegt minister voor Integratie Rita Verdonk (VVD) donderdag in Het Parool.
	www.waarmaarraar.nl /offtopic/5/ID/1026/GO/75/Rita_Verdonk.html (2515 words)

	African Bulletin > Home > May 2006 Edition > Homepage articles > Rita Verdonk as Dutch Prime Minister...what the people ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verdonk recently declared her intention to lead her party, the VVD.
		âRita Verdonk becoming the Prime Minister is bad for the country.
		âRita Verdonk becoming the prime minister of Holland shows that she will be the Dutch female Premier.
	www.mediablackberry.com /index.php?oid=1825 (913 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Dutch crisis as minister censured
		In the meantime, the old coalition, including Ms Verdonk's VVD party as the second party, is carrying on in a caretaker role.
		Ms Verdonk had vowed to deport them all, and dismissed the parliamentary motion, saying it might have led to 200,000 illegal immigrants applying for residence.
		Ms Verdonk, who has initiated the Netherlands' swing to a harder line on immigration issues in the last few years, is a hate figure for many on the left.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6175365.stm (342 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Dutch government quits after row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mrs Verdonk threatened to strip Ms Hirsi Ali of her Dutch citizenship for lying in her asylum application in 1992.
		But this week Mrs Verdonk did a U-turn, claiming she had found a legal loophole that would allow Ms Hirsi Ali to stay in the Netherlands.
		Mrs Verdonk is known as "Iron Rita" for her tough stance on immigration issues.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/5132832.stm (339 words)

	Rita Verdonk - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Maria Cornelia Frederika (Rita) Verdonk (nacido en Utrecht, Países Bajos al 18 de octubre de 1955) es una ministra holandesa en el tercer gabinete de Jan Peter Balkenende.
		Verdonk es miembra del partido liberal, el Partido Popular por Libertad y Democracia (VVD), desde 2002.
		En diciembre 2005 Verdonk era elegido mejor político/a del año.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rita_Verdonk (451 words)

	ABC News: Rita Verdonk Dented by Hirsi Ali Affair
		ABC News: Rita Verdonk Dented by Hirsi Ali Affair
		Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk during a debate at the parliament in the Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday May 16, 2006.
		Verdonk, known as 'Iron Rita' for her merciless enforcement of the Dutch government's strict immigration policies came under fire from parliament in a debate that lasted into the early hours of Wednesday morning.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1975440&page=1 (463 words)

	Ayaan Hirsi Ali en de strijd tegen de radicale islam: 18-5: Rita Verdonk Dented by Hirsi Ali Affair
		Ayaan Hirsi Ali en de strijd tegen de radicale islam: 18-5: Rita Verdonk Dented by Hirsi Ali Affair
		ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk may have brought an abrupt end to the political dreams of two women this week: those of a Somali-born lawmaker -- and her own.
		''Verdonk applied the rules the way she read them.'' ''Privately, I wish her the best,'' Verdonk said of Hirsi Ali during the debate.
	ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl /ayaanhirsiali/2006/05/rita_verdonk_de.html (1134 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - The minister, the imam and the ...
		Minister Rita Verdonk offers her hand to an imam, who respectfully told her that he could not shake a woman's hand
		The minister, a member of the liberal-conservative VVD party, delivered her message in person at the weekend when she attended a meeting with some 50 imams, saying that she wished to continue her dialogue with them next year, only then in the Dutch language.
		However, it was just one aspect of her meeting with the Muslim clerics that grabbed most of the headlines, namely her attempt to shake hands with one of the imams.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/region/netherlands/ned041122 (863 words)

	Tags - Rita Verdonk - Instablogs Community
		Rita Verdonk, the Immigration Minister is of the view that in order to promote integrity and harmony...
		Rita Verdonk, Minister of Integration and Immigration is in the hit-list of Holland’s Muslim.
		The government of Holland has decided to ban burqua and it is regarded that Verdonk is responsible for the move.
	ritus.instablogs.com /tags/rita-verdonk (282 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		AMSTERDAM — Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is moving to deport three Muslim clerics because of accusations they represent a threat to public order and national security.
		The three imams will be declared undesirable aliens and two of them will have their residence permits cancelled, the first such action has been taken against clerics.
		Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was facing a heated discussion of her new plans in parliament on Monday, December 12, though a decision is not expected for several weeks, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=ritaverdonk (904 words)

	Rita 4 president hyve, overview, rita verdonk, minister van vreemdelingenzaken. haar beleid roept... - Hyves.net
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		Verdonk wist pas na 'Zembla' dat Ayaan gelogen had...
	pro-verdonk.hyves.net (102 words)

	Hyve tegen rita verdonk, overview, een hyve tegen rita... goed he?? je kunt stemmen en lid worden. dus... - Hyves.net
		Hyve tegen rita verdonk, overview, een hyve tegen rita...
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		vind jij dat rita verdonk uit het land moet?
	verdonk1.hyves.net (72 words)

	Website minister Verdonk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verdachten van misdrijven kunnen in de raadkamer met behulp van video worden gehoord.
		Om inburgeraars op weg te helpen heeft minister Verdonk een website laten ontwikkelen.
		Op verzoek van de 21 ‘Antillengemeenten’ heeft minister Verdonk een verwijsindex voor Antilliaanse risicojongeren (VIA) laten ontwikkelen.
	www.ritaverdonk.nl (105 words)

	Holland: Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk's ministerial office - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Holland: Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk's ministerial office - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Holland: Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk's ministerial office
		Surely it wasn't someone that doesn't approve of their new tough immigration laws...
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=37868 (174 words)

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