Ayaan Hirsi Ali (40) is a Dutch intellectual, feminist activist, writer, and politician. She is the estranged daughter of the late Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. She is a prominent critic of Islam, and her screenplay for Theo Van Gogh’s movie Submission led to death threats. Since van Gogh’s assassination by a Muslim extremist in 2004, she has lived in seclusion under the protection of Dutch authorities. (Source: Wikipedia)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an atheist.
She has authored a number of books, such as The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. In 2007 she released the English version of her 2006 autobiography, Infidel.
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May 9, 2010 at 6:38 am
Loga'Abdullah
Although it is from last year, I think you may find this book review useful. The author comes from a Muslim perspective and reviews her works. The link is here … it is good to hear other opinions and ideas.
http://loga-abdullah.blogspot.com/2008/11/defending-our-diin-ayaan-hirsi-ali.html
Hope you find it interesting.
May 9, 2010 at 11:31 am
James Onen
Thanks Loga,
Indeed you are right that it is good to hear other opinions and ideas, so thanks for alerting us to your review of her books. Your input is very useful.
In the same spirit, here are links to positive and favourable reviews of Ms. Ali’s works that I hope my readers may also find interesting, contained in the world’s major publications: The New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali responds to her critics in an interview with the Guardian.
Meanwhile, here is a response to critics of Ayaan Hirsi Ali by author Christopher Hitchens.