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According to ex-communist Jolande Withuis, who discussed De zoontjesfabriek in NRC Handelsblad, Hirsi Ali formulated 'a time-honoured feminist point', namely that the specific interests and rights of women are unjustly forgotten or ignored when socialists frame them as part of an oppressed collective (in 1933, the working class; in 2002, the allochtonen).
The first is that Hirsi Ali is a woman who had enough courage and determination to escape from a life that her parents wanted for her but which she did not want – something that can be very hard to do in many Islamic cultures. She has been both a victim and a survivor – she lives with death threats.
Hirsi Ali writes about her youth in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya; about her flight to the Netherlands where she applied for political asylum, her university experience in Leiden, her work for the Labour Party, her transfer to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, her election to Parliament, and the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the film Submission.
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, also published as Heretic: Why Islam Must Change to Join the Modern World, [1] is a 2015 book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in which the author advocates that a Muslim reformation is the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.
Hirsi Ali wrote that, after the 2006 report of the Zembla TV program, Verdonk campaigned against Ali in retaliation for her earlier lack of support. [ 192 ] Her latest book was released in February 2021 and is titled Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights .
The Finnish edition, titled Neitsythäkki, omitted Hirsi Ali's most controversial quote from a January 2003 Trouw interview, namely that "Muhammad was a perverse tyrant". Publisher Otava claimed this was a "technical error", an explanation that made Hirsi Ali laugh; she said Otava should apologise, correct it and not engage in censorship. [6]
Executive Producer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a two-time New York Times bestselling author for her works Infidel and Nomad, and is the founder of the AHA Foundation. Director and Editor, Micah Smith. [4] His documentaries have screened in more than 40 film festivals worldwide. Producer and Writer, Alex Traiman. Traiman directed Iranium. [5]
Hirsi Ali "Magan" Isse (Somali: Xirsi Cali "Magan" Ciise; Arabic: حرسي علي مجن عيسى, romanized: Ḥirsī ʻAlī Majan ʻĪsā; 1935–2008), commonly known as Hirsi Magan, [1] was a Somali scholar, intellectual, and political dissident. He was a prominent figure in the Somalian Rebellion, Somali culture, and Somalia's political elite.