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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson [a] (Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born 13 November 1969) [1] is a Somalian-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women , opposing forced marriage , honour killing , child ...
In February 2010, Ferguson separated from Douglas and thereafter started dating Ayaan Hirsi Ali. [ 188 ] [ 189 ] Ferguson and Douglas divorced in 2011. Ferguson married Hirsi Ali on 10 September 2011; [ 190 ] [ 191 ] she gave birth to their son three months later.
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).
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Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (first published May 18, 2010) is a memoir by Somali-born Dutch-American writer, politician and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It is a sequel to her New York Times bestseller Infidel.
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.
Other figures associated with UATX are not exactly veterans of the John Birch Society: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali refugee whose first big issue in politics was female genital mutilation and ...
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