“I remember the celebrations. I remember the goodies and the gifts. And I remember being caught by these two women - one of them my grandmother. But they couldn”
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician.
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Born 13 November 1969 · Q214475
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the picture of strong women: the one who smuggles in the food, and the one who stands there with a knife against the army and says,
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2026· 8 entries
“the picture of strong women: the one who smuggles in the food, and the one who stands there with a knife against the army and says,”
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“and that the author had said something horrible about the Prophet, which was extremely blasphemous. And the first thought that came into my head was simply,”
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“I mean assimilation into civilization. Aboriginals, Afghanis, Somalis, Arabs, Native Americans – all these non-Western groups have to make that transition to modernity”
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“conspicuously avoided any discussion of Islamic theology, even avoiding use of the term radical Islam altogether.”
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“the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin”
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“s letter misrepresented her and her work, but that it has long been available on the Internet. She said that the”
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“Islam is part religion, and part a political-military doctrine, the part that is a political doctrine contains a world view, a system of laws and a moral code that is totally incompatible with our constitution, our laws, and our way of life.”
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2023· 4 entries
The American Conservative: In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion
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National Catholic Register: Outspoken Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali Says She is Now a Christian
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National Review: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Doctrinal and Cultural Roots of Jew Hatred
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Hirsi Ali announced that she had become a Christian
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2021· 1 entry
Fox News: Ayaan Hirsi Ali says wokeism has 'remarkable similarities' to White supremacy: 'The rotten idea of our time'
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2020· 3 entries
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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Hirsi Ali echoed statements made by French President Emmanuel Macron that Muslim immigrant communities, composed of both newly arrived migrants and second generation immigrants, had formed "separatist societies" in some
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Hirsi Ali stated that children in predominantly Muslim schools are less likely to be taught about the Holocaust and argued that schools should not cave into demands from Muslim parents that children should not be taught
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2018· 1 entry
The SPLC retracted the "Anti-Muslim Extremist" list in its entirety after Nawaz threatened legal action over his inclusion on the list
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2017· 7 entries
UPI: Topic: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Forward: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Compares Burqa To ‘Very Big Swastika’
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That, with "multiple fatwas on her head, Hirsi Ali has a greater chance of meeting a violent end than anyone I've met, Salman Rushdie included
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Hirsi Ali described the word Islamophobia as a "manufactured term" and argued "we can't stop the injustices if we say everything is Islamophobic and hide behind a politically correct screen
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Hirsi Ali reasserted her belief that Islamic faith schools should be closed if they are found to be indoctrinating their students into political Islam and that such faith schools often exist in migrant dominated communit
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Hirsi Ali spoke of how Dawah is often a precursor to Islamism
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Was awarded the Oxi Day Courage Award by the Washington Oxi Day Foundation
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2016· 1 entry
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) accused Hirsi Ali and Muslim activist Maajid Nawaz of being "anti-Muslim extremists"
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2015· 3 entries
When Donald Trump suggested a complete ban on all Muslims entering the United States as part of his presidential campaign, Hirsi Ali responded by saying that such a pledge gave "false hope" to voters by questioning the r
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Wrote that even her fiercest critics would have problems denying what Hirsi Ali writes about current issues in Islam, and since those issues are unpalatable, an added difficulty is a cultural practice to "not offend anyo
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In a terror attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, along with 11 other people
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 9,247 times.
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2012· 2 entries
The American Conservative: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. ‘Christophobia’
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded Jyllands-Posten's Freedom of Expression Award (2010).
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Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2010).
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Opposed the idea of preventing immigrants from traditional Muslim societies from immigrating, claiming that allowing them to immigrate made the U
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Anwar al-Awlaki published a hit list in his Inspire magazine, including Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, and Salman Rushdie along with cartoonists Lars Vilks and three Jyllands-Posten staff members: Kurt Westergaard, Carsten Ju
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2009· 5 entries
“Original: «People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
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“There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.”
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“Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.”
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“Original: «With our grandmother staying behind in Somalia, my mother had nobody with whom to share tasks and plans. She could do nothing on her own. She wasn't supposed to go out on the street without these new guardians of ours, our uncles, and neither were we. To phone them she had to scuttle down to the corner grocer, with my ten-year-old brother in tow acting as her protective male.”
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“Original: «In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. [...] The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2008).
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Awarded Richard Dawkins Award (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
“we are at war with Islam. And there”
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In the Netherlands to help fund protection of Hirsi Ali and other Muslim dissidents
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2006· 9 entries
Awarded European of the Year (2006).
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Awarded The Glass of Reason (2006).
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“s opponent, Mark Rutte, as the better choice. She says that after telling Verdonk of her position, the minister became vindictive. Hirsi Ali wrote that, after the 2006 report of the Zembla TV program, Verdonk campaigned against Hirsi Ali in retaliation for her earlier lack of support. Her latest book was released in February 2021 and is titled Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women”
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Hirsi Ali took a position at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D
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Hirsi Ali made available to The New York Times some letters she believed would provide insight into her 1992 asylum application
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That she could lose her Dutch citizenship because of these issues, rendering her ineligible for parliament
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Was published in English as Infidel: My Life, becoming a New York Times best seller in 2007
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As The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason a
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By The Observer newspaper, marked her deeply
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2005· 2 entries
Time magazine named Hirsi Ali as one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Were sentenced to community service and a suspended prison sentence
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Dutchman of the Year (2004).
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Awarded Harriët Freezer Ring (2004).
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A rap song about Hirsi Ali titled "Hirsi Ali Dis" was produced and distributed on the internet by a group called "The Hague Connection"
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2003· 4 entries
Aged 33, Hirsi Ali successfully fought a parliamentary election
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Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2003–2006).
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Hirsi Ali worked together with fellow VVD MP Geert Wilders for several months
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Hirsi Ali was elected to the lower house of the States General of the Netherlands
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2001· 2 entries
Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,210 times.
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For which al-Qaeda eventually claimed responsibility
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1992· 1 entry
Her father arranged to marry her to a distant cousin
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-11-13.
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