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Yet Another Horrible New Atheist: Ayaan Hirsi Ali [View all]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Dutch: [ɑˈjaːn ˈɦirsi ˈaːli] ( listen); born 13 November 1969) birthname Ayaan Hirsi Magan Isse Guleid Ali Waiays Muhammad Ali Umar Osman Mahamud;[a] is a Somali-born American (formerly Dutch) activist, writer and politician. She is known for her views critical of female genital mutilation and Islam, and supportive of women's rights and atheism. She collaborated on a short movie with Theo van Gogh, entitled Submission (2004). Critical of Islam, it provoked controversy, and death threats were made against each of the two. Van Gogh was assassinated later that year by a Dutch Muslim.
Hirsi Ali is the daughter of the Somali politician and opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. She and her family left Somalia in 1977 for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, settling in Kenya. In 1992 Ali sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands; her misleading application was later the subject of a political controversy. Following graduate work, she published articles on her political views and spoke in support of Muslim women, becoming an atheist. In 2003 she was elected a member of the House of Representatives (the lower house of the Dutch parliament), representing the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). A political crisis related to the validity of her Dutch citizenship led to her resignation from parliament, and indirectly to the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet in 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
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If a person is being intellectually honest and consistent, he or she would measure the degree
rug
Dec 2014
#13
Actually it is. It encompasses the obligations, as well as the rights, embodied in the Constitution.
rug
Dec 2014
#33
.. in .. a 2007 interview with Reason .. Hirsi Ali .. repudiates the notion that her enemy is merely
struggle4progress
Dec 2014
#5
Consider who probably is and isn't implied by the word "brotherhood"... N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Dec 2014
#18
I'm afraid I think Hirsi Ali is one of the few high-profile New Atheists who really is a bigot.
Donald Ian Rankin
Dec 2014
#17