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[[File:Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking at CPAC 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland.]]
'''{{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
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Q&A: the west must stop seeing Muslims only as victims
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/17/ayaan-hirsi-ali-qanda-west-muslims-only-as-victims
|publisher=The Guardian
|date=2016-05-16
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</ref><ref>{{REFnews
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Heretic'
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/books/review/ayaan-hirsi-alis-heretic.html
|publisher=The New York Times
|date=2015-04-01
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</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
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "You can't change these practices if you don't talk about them"
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180210012215/https://womenintheworld.com/2016/04/10/women-in-islam-you-cant-change-these-practices-if-you-dont-talk-about-them/
|archived=yes
|publisher=The New York Times
|date=2017-02-24
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/ayaan-hirsi-ali/
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Challenge of Radical Islam
|website=Conversations with Bill Kristol
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</ref> 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<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/ayaan-hirsi-ali
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali
|website=Hoover Institution
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</ref> and an adjunct scholar at the AEI (American Enterprise Institue)<ref>{{REFweb
|title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali
|url=https://www.aei.org/profile/ayaan-hirsi-ali/
|website=American Enterprise Institute - AEI
|accessdate=2021-09-17
}}</ref>, 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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* {{URLwikipedia|Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali|Ayaan Hirsi Ali|2021-09-17}}

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