Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking at CPAC 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia), is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician.[1][2] She received international attention as a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, actively opposing forced marriage, honor killing, child marriage and female genital mutilation.[3][4] She has founded an organisation for the defense of women's rights, the AHA Foundation.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution[5] and an adjunct scholar at the AEI (American Enterprise Institue)[6], covering the research areas Islam and the West, Islam and Women, and Islam in Europe. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.

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  1. REFnews (16 May 2016)."Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Q&A: the west must stop seeing Muslims only as victims", The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. REFnews (1 April 2015)."Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Heretic'", The New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. REFnews (24 February 2017)."Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "You can't change these practices if you don't talk about them"" (archive URL), The New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  4. REFweb Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Challenge of Radical Islam, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  5. REFweb Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hoover Institution. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  6. REFweb Ayaan Hirsi Ali, American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 17 September 2021.