My name is Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi-Ali was born in Somalia in 1969 and is a Dutch feminist and political writer. Ali is the daughter of the prominent Somali politican and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. At the age of 8, Ali and her family left Somalia to move to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, before Ali obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992. Ali is a vocal critic of Islam whose writings deal with what she sees as the subordination of women by the religion. Her work is controversial and Ali has received many death threats, leading her to live under guard. Ali’s most famous books include a collection of essays called The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam and Infidel an autobiography published in 2006. Ali now lives in the Netherlands at a secret address.
My Ideas
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Free Markets and Morality
- The author and American Enterprise Institute Fellow answers the Big Question "Does the free market corrode moral character?"
- Where are we?
- Nuclear weapons and religious fanaticism is a dangerous combination, Ali says.
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