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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As a young child, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. As she grew up...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the West, Dawa, and Islam
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Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali On Donald Trump's Immigration Ban And Counter-Terrorism Strategy On RN Breakfast
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses Islam, President Trump's plans to shape counter-terrorism strategy, as well as Trump's temporary ban on immigrants from seven countries.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: US Should Pressurize Saudi Arabia To End Its Stance On Radical Islam
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses President Donald Trump’s recent outreach to Saudi Arabia, the recent changing of the guard within the Saudi royal family and its impact on radical Islam and Middle East politics.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali On The Bolt Report (4:13)
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the problems with Islam and examines the atrocities in Syria. Ali discusses the problems with the proxy war between the Sunnis and Shias and that the world must step in and do something. Ali asks us to notice the perpetual carnage, the oppression of women, the intolerance, and the moral bankruptcy wherever the Muslims rule.
Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali Says US Has Its Head In The Sand When It Comes To ISIS
Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali wants the United States to do more to fight radical Islam. Ali says, “Radical Islamists in the United States are taking advantage of the freedoms we have and the free institutions to isolate Muslim Americans and inculcate into their heads to reject American values and promoting this idea of hatred. Unless we understand that, we won’t be able eradicate the idea of ISIS anywhere.”
Contrasting Two Disparate Somalis: Ilhan Omar & Ayaan Hirsi Ali
ay Greenberg, reporting in April 2019 in a column published by Neonnettle, said that, during an interview with a Middle Eastern magazine, Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar declared that living in “ugly” American society is “an everyday assault;” also adding that Omar claims that “every day” she is “threatened” and “demonized” due to the “ugliness” that she says is ingrained in the US populace.
Two Women Activists Testify On Capitol Hill About The Extremist Ideology ‘Within The House Of Islam’
Asra Q. Nomani and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, both supporting Muslim reform, will speak about the roots of terrorism at a U.S. Senate hearing.
Threats To Free And Open Societies
Hoover Institution fellows H.R. McMaster, Niall Ferguson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Larry Diamond discuss threats to free and open societies and what can be done to defeat these threats across government, the private sector, academia, and civil society.
Don’t Be Deluded – Our Saudi ‘Partners’ Are Masters Of Repression
The persecution of activists at home and war in Yemen show talk of reform is a charade.
Don’t Let Google Get Away With Censorship
Big tech companies enjoy legal immunity premised on the assumption they’ll respect free speech.
Robert Fulford: Can Islam Be Reformed? Who Will, Or Even Can Be, A Muslim Martin Luther?
“I was a Muslim refugee once,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali declared this week in her response to President Donald Trump’s travel ban. “I know what it’s like. I know what it’s like to fear rejection, deportation and the dangers that await you back home.”
Muslim Women Debate Anti-Semitism
Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal on July 12, 2019 called “Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice.” It was an article written by a black Muslim woman refugee from Somalia who fled to the Netherlands to enter politics as a converted Christian, about another black Muslim woman refugee from Somalia who fled to the United States to enter politics as a Muslim.
Hypocritical Leftists Willing To Give Muslim Extremists A Pass
He’s a former Muslim extremist who speaks out against such extremism — yet he’s been labeled an extremist.
Trump’s Immigration Ban Was Clumsy But He’s Right About Radical Islam
I was once a refugee, but I fear the storm over Trump’s executive order is distracting us from the threat that radical Islam poses within our borders.
Trump Must Tackle Saudi Fanaticism When He's In Riyadh
As he leaves behind a maelstrom of domestic political troubles, President Trump must be one of the few people in the world who goes to the Middle East for some peace. However, the region badly needs some of Trump’s characteristic disruption.
Caroline Glick: Mcmaster’s Policies Completely Contradict Trump’s, Natural Continuation Of Obama’s
Jerusalem Post contributor Caroline Glick criticized National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster’s leadership of the National Security Council on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
How Is The War On Radical Islam Going?
By focusing on the acts of violence after 9/11 we ignored the ideology that justifies, promotes, celebrates, and encourages violence.
5 Times Mass Migration Fallout Proved Trump Ambassador Hoekstra Right
The U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Peter Hoekstra has been under attack from the mainstream media after pointing out how mass migration has caused major problems for the country.
Ilhan Omar's Glaring Anti-Jewish Blind Spot
An anti-Jewish animus runs deep in the veins of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Her support for the BDS movement as an elected official is outrageous – and for her to compare it to American boycotts of the Nazis and Soviet Russia is beyond the pale.
A War On The West
Will the West be complicit in its own destruction? That is the question raised by the documentary film, The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War against the West.