Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Difference between revisions

'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1969-11-13|birthplace=Mogadishu|birthcountry=Somalia}}), is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician.<ref>{{REFnews

}}</ref> 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 [[FGM|female genital mutilation]].<ref>{{REFnews

}}</ref> and an adjunct scholar at the AEI (American Enterprise Institue)<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref>, covering the research areas Islam and the West, Islam and Women, and Islam in Europe.

 

After [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] asked if male circumcision could be made illegal, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner claimed that circumcision was not traumatic and he saw no reason to make it illegal.<ref name="donner2004">{{REFnews

Meddings (2017) stated that

  |Text=Prominent human rights advocates [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] and [[Soraya Mire]] (both survivors of [[FGM|female genital mutilation]]) have acknowledged that male [[circumcision]] is worse than some forms

of female genital mutilation. Indeed, in its removal of the [[foreskin]], which is the most sensitive part of the [[penis]], male circumcision also removes 30–50 per cent of the penile skin.

  |Author=Jonathan Meddins

 

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