Swedish Ayaan Hirsi Ali" Wants To Become Prime Minister

Volkskrant (Netherlands) does a profile on Nyamko Sabuni, a Swedish center-right politician who has drawn comparisons to Ayaan Hirsi Ali - the Somali-born moderate-conservative feminist and former Dutch parliamentarian known for her staunch criticisms of Islam, who now lives in USA. Minister Sabuni's goal is to become Sweden's first female premier (article in Dutch):

"The besnijdenis of little girls must be prohibited. Also they must be examined to see if prohibition [against female genital mutilation] is also observed. Schoolgirls can no longer veiled to school. Arranging marriages must become illegal, subsidies to religious schools to have to be stopped and immigrants must learn the language go and to the work. Nyamko Sabuni (37), minister for integration and gender equality in Stockhom, is not for nothing called the Swedish Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She is controversial.

"She is the most incompetent minister for integration ever because she lacks both empathy and experience"" says Kurdo Baksi, a Turkish scientist and columnist in Sweden. Baksi has been disappointed that Sweden has a minister "who adopts negative positions concerning Islam. Sabuni was appointed in October by center-right Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Sabuni was born in Burundi, and at age 12 came to to Sweden. In 1980, her father got asylum in Sweden after he had been condemned in then Zaïre (current Congo-Kinshasa) because he was in opposition to Mobuto Sese Seko."The piece continues: "For Nyamko Sabuni, whose career is rapidly on the rise, she rejects the harsh Baksi's harsh judgments: "My aim is that immigrants incorporate. And that their children grow up such like other children in Sweden.

" Thus she argues that immigrants must learn to speak fluent Swedish - just like she had to learn starting at age 12 - as she argues that language and work are the most important matters to integration. Sabuni, married and the mother of 5-year-old twins, studied at the University of Uppsala. In 2002, she joined Parliament under the center-right Liberal People's Party [note: in Europe, "liberal" often means something similar to what Americans would call libertarian or classical liberalism]. She says that her appointment is proof "that Sweden has developed into a society of equal chances."....Three years, Sabuni said on television that she would like to become Sweden's first female prime minister. "That is not something that I think of daily, but my eventual aim is the premiership."