Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Nov 13, 1969(1969-11-13)
Age	55
Birthplace	Mogadishu
Country	Somalia
Birth City	Banaadir
Horoscope	Scorpio

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Biography

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on November 13, 1969 in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. Female activist and feminist who’s spoken out about her opinions on female genital mutilation which is a common cultural ritual among ethnic groups across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She was an elected member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 2003 until 2006.

Both she as well as Both she and Fazil Say are intellectuals who converted from Islam to atheism. are both intellectuals who have made the switch from Islam to atheism.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (/aɪ ˈ j ɑː n ˈ h ɪər s i ˈ ɑː l i / ; Dutch: [aːˈjaːn ˈɦiːrsi ˈaːli] ( listen ) ; Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali: Ayān Ḥirsī ‘Alī; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician. She received international attention as a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self- determination of Muslim women, actively opposing forced marriage, honor violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation. She has founded an organisation for the defense of women’s rights, the AHA Foundation.

After her father escaped from prison, he and the family left Somalia in 1977, going to Saudi Arabia and then to Ethiopia, before settling in Nairobi, Kenya by 1980. There he established a comfortable upper-class life for them. Hirsi Ali attended the English-language Muslim Girls’ Secondary School. By the time she reached her teens, Saudi Arabia was funding religious education in numerous countries and its religious views were becoming influential among many Muslims. A charismatic religious teacher, trained under this aegis, joined Hirsi Ali’s school. She inspired the teenaged Ayaan, as well as some fellow students, to adopt the more rigorous Saudi Arabian interpretations of Islam, as opposed to the more relaxed versions then current in Somalia and Kenya. Hirsi Ali said later that she had long been impressed by the Qur’an and had lived “by the Book, for the Book” throughout her childhood.

She got married to British historian and journalist She married British historian and public commentator Niall Ferguson in 2011. She has a son named Thomas. in the year 2011. The couple has one son called Thomas.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Net Worth

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from Somalia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ayaan Hirsi Ali 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at Leiden University and went on to become a fellow of Wiardi Beckman Foundation. Wiardi Beckman Foundation.

She has shifted to Islam to atheism and became extremely vocally opposed to the religion for its supposed gender-based discrimination and is the woman’s rights organization, called the AHA Foundation.

Ayaan was born in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was a prominent member of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front and a leading figure in the Somali Revolution. Shortly after she was born, her father was imprisoned due to his opposition to the Siad Barre government. Hirsi Ali’s father had studied abroad and was opposed to female genital mutilation, but while he was imprisoned, Hirsi Ali’s grandmother had a man perform the procedure on her, when Hirsi Ali was five years old. According to Hirsi Ali, she was fortunate that her grandmother could not find a woman to do the procedure, as the mutilation was “much milder” when performed by men.

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Who is Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dating?

According to our records, Ayaan Hirsi Ali married to Niall Ferguson. As of December 1, 2023, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s is not dating anyone.

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Hirsi Ali has criticised the treatment of women in Islamic societies and the punishments demanded by conservative Islamic scholars for homosexuality and adultery. She publicly identified as Muslim until 28 May 2002, when she acknowledged in her diary that she knew she was not.

Facts & Trivia

Ayaan Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Somalia. Ayaan Hirsi Ali celebrates birthday on November 13 of every year.

Hirsi Ali admitted that she had lied about her full name, date of birth, and the manner in which she had come to the Netherlands, but persisted in saying she was trying to flee a forced marriage. She noted that her first book, The Son Factory (2002), provided her real name and date of birth. She had also stated these in a September 2002 interview published in the political magazine HP/De Tijd. and in an interview in the VARA gids (2002). Hirsi Ali asserted in her 2006 autobiography (2007 in English) that she made full disclosure of the matter to VVD officials when invited to run for parliament in 2002. It is not known on what grounds she received political asylum. On the issue of her name, she applied under her grandfather’s surname in her asylum application, to which she was entitled; she later said it was to escape retaliation by her clan. In the later parliamentary investigation of Hirsi Ali’s immigration, the Dutch law governing names was reviewed. An applicant may legally use a surname derived from any generation as far back as the grandparent. Therefore, Hirsi Ali’s application, though against clan custom of names, was legal under Dutch law. The question of her age was of minor concern. Media speculation arose in 2006 that she could lose her Dutch citizenship because of these issues, rendering her ineligible for parliament. At first, Minister Rita Verdonk said she would not look into the matter. She later decided to investigate Hirsi Ali’s naturalisation process. The investigation found that Hirsi Ali had not legitimately received Dutch citizenship, because she had lied about her name and date of birth. However, later inquiries established that she was entitled to use the name Ali because it was her grandfather’s name. Verdonk moved to annul Hirsi Ali’s citizenship, an action later overridden at the urging of Parliament.

What is Ayaan Hirsi Ali doing now?

Hirsi Ali is the founder and president of the AHA Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organisation to protect women and girls in the U.S. against political Islam and harmful tribal customs that violate U.S. law and international conventions.

Who is Ayaan Ali?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, original name Ayaan Hirsi Magan, (born November 13, 1969, Mogadishu, Somalia), Somali-born Dutch American activist, writer, and politician best known for her contention that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western democratic values, especially those upholding the rights of women.

Who is Ayaan Hirsi Ali husband?

Niall Ferguson

Where was Hirsi Ali born?

Mogadishu, Somalia

Why Islam needs reformation now?

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, also published as Heretic: Why Islam Must Change to Join the Modern World, 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.