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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[[intactivist]], 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
|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/
|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.
== Politics ==
Ayaan Hirsi Ali served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.
===Male circumcision===
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
|title=Justice Minister against outlawing circumcision
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/radionetherlands10-07-04/
[[Jonathan Meddings|Meddings]] (2017) stated that
{{Citation
|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 formsof 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 [[penile skin]].
|Author=[[Jonathan Meddings]]
|Source=Australian Rationalist
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Netherlands]]
* [[United States of America]]
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* {{URLwikipedia|Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali|Ayaan Hirsi Ali|2021-09-17}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Hirsi}}<!-- family name verified via WP article -->
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