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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia on November 13, 1969.
Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was an opponent of Siyad Barre, the
socialist
president of Somalia,
and her family was forced to flee the country. They fled to Saudi
Arabia, later moving to Ethiopia and then to Kenya where she attended
high
school. In 1992, after being forced into an arranged marriage with a
distant
cousin in Canada, she flew
to the Netherlands
where she received a residence permit on humanitarian grounds and later
citizenship.
Now a member of Parliament in Holland, Hirsi Ali wrote The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. In 2004, with
controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, she made the film Submission about the oppression of women
in Islamic cultures.
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