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A leading critic of Islam reportedly has been forced to leave the U.S. because American authorities will not finance her personal security.Ayaan Hirsi Ali-who wrote the script of a controversial film about repression of women in Muslim culture-has returned to the Netherlands, said the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad.The Dutch government says that since Ali has been in the States for more than a year, it no longer would pay the expenses for her security.Ali, 37, had been working for the Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute since August 2006.She has been living under strict personal security measures provided by the Dutch government since 2004, when her life was threatened by Muslim radical Mohammed Bouyeri. In November 2004, Bouyeri assassinated the director of the film "Submission," for which Ali wrote the script.Ali, a native of Somalia, was granted asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 and became a legislator for the Liberal VVD party.Her family moved to Saudi Arabia when she was 6 years old then went on to Ethiopia before settling in Kenya.Ali told her story in the best-selling book "Infidel," published this year.Her straightforward criticism of Islam and unabashed appreciation of America were on display in an interview with incredulous Canadian TV host Avi Lewis."Islam means submission to the will of Allah, a doctrine that requires from the individual to become a slave," Ali told Lewis.Islam, she said, "keeps people backward" by limiting their imaginations to what can be found in the Quran and the example of Muhammad.Lewis retorted: "Surely there are many versions of Islam, like there are may versions of Christianity or Judaism, of all major religions. You are presenting it as one thing, and it's just obviously not."Ali replied: "Islam, as a faith, as a doctrine, defined by what's in the Quran and the example of the prophet Muhammad – unreformed, unchallenged – is a monolith.As in the days of Noah....
