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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...
Maajid Nawaz: The Important Reason Why We Need Blasphemy
Progress can never be made if we can't satirise Islam, says Maajid Nawaz.
Face-Off: Universities Should Never Restrict Controversial Speakers
Two opposing opinions go head to head.
Sorry, George Clooney, The Southern Poverty Law Center Can’t Be Trusted
George and Amal Clooney, please reconsider your donation to SPLC. It may well do more harm than good.
Path Of The Secular Humanist: Is Another Reformation In Order?
During the Autumnal Equinox, Sept. 20-14, the following letter was sent to Rev. Steve Loy.
Women Under Islam
A feminist takes an unblinking look at gender repression in the Muslim world.
Confronting Political Islam
Without a U.S. counterstrategy, the violent ideology will spread.
We Must No Longer Turn A Blind Eye To Islamic Extremism But Instead Root Out Radicals Who Hate The West
Islamism is an ideology incompatible with the values of liberal societies.
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.
City Council's Silence On Inclusivity Proclamation Cannot Be Tolerated
"There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice." — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Holland Tacks Metropopulist
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 Refugee
Ayaan Hirsi Ali begins her commentary with these words: “I was a Muslim refugee once. I know what it’s like.” She was en route to Canada to consummate a marriage arranged against her will by her father. At the Frankfurt Airport, she fled to the Netherlands. There she learned Dutch and received a master’s degree in political science before coming to America.
Miranda Devine: We Cannot Be Paying For Junkets For Sharia Law Apologists
And as Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is calling for a reform of Islam, points out: “As a moral and legal code, sharia law is among the most dehumanising, demeaning and degrading for women ever devised by man.”
New Ways Of Responding To Extremist Islam
Jihad is spreading violence -- and succeeding. "Of the last sixteen years," notes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her new book, The Challenge of Dawa, "the worst year for terrorism was 2014, with ninety-three countries experiencing attacks and 32,765 people killed."
Let Us Now Praise Muslim Apostates
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.
Muslim Women Debate Antisemitism
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.
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.
The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter it
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.
Islam Shouldn’t Be An Exception
[Subscription Required] Ayaan Hirsi Ali is coming to Australia soon to speak about reforming traditional Islam and confronting militant Islam. There are people and organisations trying to prevent her from coming or speaking. They describe her as an “extremist” who engages in “hate speech”. They are in error. She must be allowed both to come here and to speak. In a liberal society one is free to choose and to change one’s religion, one is free to not adhere to any religion and one is free to inquire, read, speak and write critically of religions, political ideologies and other matters, including law and morals.