BBC: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch MP and outspoken critic of Islam, has appealed to the EU to create a fund to help protect people in her position.
She told the European Parliament in Brussels her life was in greater danger because the Dutch government had stopped paying for her security.
"I don't want to die, I want to live and I love life," she said.
Ms Ali added that the cost of her bodyguards was beyond anything a private person could raise. Islam critic asks for protection >>>
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