Somali-Dutch-American activist and author — former Dutch MP — who escaped a forced marriage, collaborated with Theo van Gogh (assassinated 2004 for Submission), was placed under permanent death threat, and has written extensively on Islam and women's rights — converted from Islam to atheism, then to Christianity in 2023.
Creates the most personally credible critique of political Islam from within — Hirsi Ali's arguments are distinguished from external critics by her own experience of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, and life under Islamic law; her Infidel autobiography remains the most widely read personal account of these experiences.
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