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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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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...

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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the West, Dawa, and Islam

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, August 8, 2017

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    Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s Most Eloquent Apostate

    Research | Articles | by Tunku Varadarajan
    Friday, April 7, 2017

    The West’s obsession with ‘terror’ has been a mistake, she argues. Dawa, the ideology behind it, is a broader threat.

    How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sharia?

    Research | Articles | by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Thursday, February 16, 2017

    [Subscription Required] Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the founder of the AHA Foundation, which exists to protect women and girls ...

    Let Us Now Praise Muslim Apostates

    Research | Articles
    Friday, September 1, 2017

    Standing up to political correctness and facing death threats, the Muslim apostate writers Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have honored our increasingly endangered Western heritage of free thought, which includes the right—indeed, the obligation—to subject religious dogma to criticism and reason. 

    The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter it

    Research | Podcasts
    Sunday, April 23, 2017

    Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for decoupling political aims from the religion of Islam to combat growing radicalism. She also discusses counterterrorism strategy, which she argues should focus on battling the ideas that spread radicalism rather than the radicals themselves.

    The Challenge Of Dawa: Political Islam As Ideology And Movement And How To Counter It

    News | News/Press
    Tuesday, March 21, 2017

    The Hoover Institution Press today released The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It by Hoover research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this free downloadable report, Hirsi Ali argues that the American public urgently needs to be educated about both the ideology of political Islam, dawa, and the organizational infrastructure that Islamists use to inspire, indoctrinate, recruit, finance, and mobilize those Muslims whom they hope to win over to the extremist cause.

    The Disgusting Barbarism Of Female Genital Mutilation Is Not Religious Freedom

    Research | Articles
    Tuesday, February 13, 2018

    In April 2017, The Times of India reported that Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the spiritual global leader of a Shia Muslim sect called the Dawoodi Bohras, reaffirmed the mandate of female genital mutilation (katna) in a sermon carried over a livestream and repeated in a messaging app.

    Lessons Learned: European Values Vs  Islamism

    Research | Podcasts
    Thursday, November 19, 2020

    Assita Kanko, MEP and Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed Lessons Learned: European Values vs. Islamism on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

    On Radical Islam, Trump Has Lost His Focus

    Research | Articles | by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Wednesday, August 9, 2017

    There’s no ‘extreme vetting,’ no outreach to moderates, and too much coziness with Riyadh.

    Freedom or Terror

    Research | Articles | by Russell A. Berman
    Wednesday, September 29, 2010
    Will Europe defend its hard-earned freedoms against radical Islam? Will it even try? From a new book by Russell A. Berman.

    Politics and Governance in a Changing Iran

    Event
    Friday, November 21, 2003
    Friday, November 21, 2003 Stauffer Auditorium Hoover Institution Stanford University CONFERENCE AGENDA 8:00 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 A.M. Introduction and Welcoming Remarks LARRY DIAMOND, Hoover Institution 8:45 A.M. Panel I: The ...

    From India To Israel, Making Beautiful Music

    Research | Articles | by Tunku Varadarajan
    Saturday, November 11, 2017
    Zubin Mehta discusses Wagner, Mahler and the evolution of the Jewish state in the half-century since he adopted it.

    Politics, Society, and Economy in a Changing Iran

    Event
    Thursday, May 20, 2004

    "Is Iran ready to become a democracy?" asked Larry Diamond, Hoover senior fellow, in opening the conference. Participants addressed this question through presentations and discussions in several panel sessions. In addition, Shirin Ebadi, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, was the keynote speaker at a reception and dinner May 20.

    Another Step Forward for Iraq

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010

    Forgive Vice President Joe Biden the audacity of claiming last month on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Iraq is destined to be "one of the great achievements of this administration." . . .

    The Tipping Point in Iran

    Research | Articles | by Abbas Milani
    Tuesday, December 29, 2009

    When millions of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets of big Iranian cities in June to protest what was widely assumed to be a stolen election, many in the West wondered whether the movement had the will and vision to sustain itself. . . .

    Autocracy and the Decline of the Arabs

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Wednesday, August 5, 2009

    ‘It made me feel so jealous,” said Abdulmonem Ibrahim, a young Egyptian political activist, of the recent upheaval in Iran...

    The Kingdom of Caution

    Research | Articles | by Joshua Teitelbaum
    Wednesday, July 13, 2011

    The land where stability vies ceaselessly with stagnation. By Joshua Teitelbaum.

    Where the Autocrats Rule On

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Thursday, January 14, 2010

    Now that the U.S. freedom agenda has quietly been shelved, Arab lands can only reflect on what might have been. By Fouad Ajami.

    Islam’s Nowhere Men

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Wednesday, September 29, 2010
    Jihadists are conflicted citizens of the very world they wish to destroy.

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