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Line 33: }} }} '''Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson'''{{efn|English: In 2003, Ali was elected to the [[lower house]] of the [[States General of the Netherlands]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=John Ward |date=17 May 2006 |title=Discredited Somali Quits Dutch Politics Advocate for Women Is Critic of Islam |work=[[Washington Times]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/05/17/discredited-somali-quits-dutch-politics-span-classbankheadadvocate-for-women-is-critic-of-islamspan/c91f33ce-816a-44c4-9b98-ee414374cce3/}}</ref> While serving in parliament, she collaborated on a short film with [[Theo van Gogh (film director)|Theo van Gogh]], titled ''[[Submission (2004 film)|Submission]]'', which depicted the oppression of women under [[fundamentalist Islamic]] law and was critical of the Muslim canon itself.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |date=2005-03-11 |title=Slaughter And 'Submission' – CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/slaughter-and-submission-11-03-2005/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The film led to death threats, and Van Gogh was murdered shortly after the film's release by [[Mohammed Bouyeri]], a Moroccan-Dutch [[Islamic terrorist]], driving Hirsi Ali into hiding.<ref name=":13" /> At this time, she became more outspoken as a critic of the Muslim faith. In 2005, [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] magazine named Ali as one of the [[Time 100|100 most influential people in the world]].<ref name="time" /> Her outspoken criticism of Islam made her a controversial figure in Dutch politics. Following a political crisis related to the validity of her [[Dutch nationality law|Dutch citizenship]], she left Parliament and ultimately the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Controversy Over Dutch Politician Divides The Netherlands – DW – 05/17/2006 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/controversy-over-dutch-politician-divides-the-netherlands/a-2024244 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite web |date=2017-06-06 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Tackle Islam or face civil war |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/ayaan-hirsi-ali-tackle-islam-or-face-civil-war/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref> Line 97: === Dutch citizenship controversy === In May 2006, the TV programme ''[[Zembla (TV series)|Zembla]]'' reported that Hirsi Ali had given false information about her name, her age, and her country of residence when originally applying for asylum, in a documentary called "The Holy Ayaan".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbxP8Uys8kc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/YbxP8Uys8kc |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Christian Right's Favorite Ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali Exposed As Fake – Dutch Doc" Holy Ayaan !! "|last=MCDebate|date=7 October 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="a308">{{cite web | last=Broder | first=Henryk M. | title=The Hirsi Ali Case: "Voltaire and Erasmus Are Spinning in their Graves" | website=DER SPIEGEL | date=2006-05-17 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/the-hirsi-ali-case-voltaire-and-erasmus-are-spinning-in-their-graves-a-416587.html | access-date=2024-09-15}}</ref> In her asylum application, she had claimed to be fleeing a forced marriage, but the ''Zembla'' coverage featured interviews with her family, who denied that claim.<ref>''The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe'', Klausen, J., New York: Oxford University Press, 2005; "She wasn't forced into a marriage. She had an amicable relationship with her husband, as well as with the rest of her family. It was not true that she had to hide from her family for years."</ref> The program alleged that, contrary to Hirsi Ali's claims of having fled a Somali war zone, the MP had been living comfortably in upper middle-class conditions safely in Kenya with her family for at least 12 years before she sought refugee status in the Netherlands in 1992. In her version of events, she had fled civil war in Somalia, was forced into an arranged marriage with a man whom she had never met and was not present at her own wedding. Upon escaping she was forced into hiding in the Netherlands, for her ex-husband and father's brothers would have been by Somali custom, required to perform an honor killing. The accounts of various witnesses varied greatly from hers. According to them, she left Somalia prior to any mass violence and led a comfortable, upper-middle class life in neighboring Kenya, where she attended a Muslim girls' school and received a full western-style education with a focus on the humanities and science. Further, these witnesses allege that her brother attended a Christian school, that she lied to the Dutch immigration service about coming from Somalia in order not to be sent back to Kenya, and that she met her husband a few days before her wedding. After several meetings with him, they allege she agreed to the marriage, even though her mother said Ayaan should finish her education so she could afford to leave him if the marriage should prove unsuccessful. They also allege that Hirsi Ali was present at the wedding, something her brother later denied, and according to several witnesses appeared to be enjoying herself. Hirsi Ali denies all of this. On her way to Canada, she says she travelled to the Netherlands by train during a stopover in Germany and applied for political asylum. During her stay in the Netherlands, she regularly received letters from her father.<ref>{{cite news|last=Conway|first=Isabel|title=MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mp-may-be-deported-over-claims-she-lied-to-win-asylum-478265.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=15 May 2006}}</ref> The documentary also quoted several native Somalis as saying there is no tradition of honor killing in Somalia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/topic/disturbing-news-honor-killings/|title=Disturbing news: honor killings, Somalia Online, 5 January 2006}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Line 207: After formally renouncing Islam, Ali identified as an atheist. One of her decisions to stop believing in God was after reading the ''[[Atheïstisch manifest]]'' by Dutch philosopher [[Herman Philipse]] a year after the 9/11 attacks<ref>{{cite web |url=https://openlysecular.org/freethinker/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali |access-date=2023-11-11}}</ref> and that she agreed with arguments put forward by [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Christopher Hitchens]] and [[Richard Dawkins]] on organized religion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-27 |title=The Unlikely Conversion of Ayaan Hirsi Ali |url=https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-unlikely-conversion-of-ayaan-hirsi-ali |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Crisis Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":12" /> In November 2023, Hirsi Ali [[Conversion to Christianity|converted to Christianity]] stating that "atheism can't equip us for [[Culture war|civilisational war]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kumar |first=Anugrah |date=2023-11-12 |title=Muslim-turned-atheist rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she is now a Christian |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/ayaan-hirsi-ali-says-shes-now-a-christian.html |access-date= |website=[[The Christian Post]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=Ayaan Hirsi |date=2023-11-13 |title=Why I am now a Christian |url=https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/ |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=UnHerd |language=en-GB}}</ref> Explaining her decision in an essay for [[UnHerd]], Ali argued that the West was under threat from "the resurgence of great-power [[authoritarianism]] and [[expansionism]] in the forms of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and [[Vladimir Putin]] Some commentators, such as Sarah Jones writing for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, suggested that for Hirsi Ali, "atheism only ever propped up her career as a culture warrior". Abandoning a New Atheist movement "in terminal decline" for a new vehicle, "she remains on the same crusade, inveighing against Islam and having simply exchanged one banner for another".<ref name=":12" /> However, === Feminism === Line 265: == Personal life == Hirsi Ali married British–American historian [[Niall Ferguson]] on 10 September 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last=Allen-Mills |first=Tony |date=9 May 2010 |title=In love ... and on an Islamist death list |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times]] |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article7120478.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624091538/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article7120478.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 June 2011 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Murray |first=Douglas |author-link= |date=October 2011 |title=Right Wedding |newspaper=[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]] |url=http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4135/full |url-status=dead |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507221743/http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4135/full |archive-date=7 May 2018}}</ref> They have two sons.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Valk |first1=Guus |last2=Theirlynck |first2=Tristan |date=18 February 2021 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Europese landen spelen spelletjes met hun eigen bevolking' |newspaper=[[NRC Handelsblad]] |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/02/18/ayaan-hirsi-ali-europese-landen-spelen-spelletjes-met-hun-eigen-bevolking-a4032358}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Van Noorloos |first=Jorieke |date=17 February 2021 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali over haar leven in Amerika én haar nieuwe boek |url=https://www.linda.nl/persoonlijk/ayaan-hirsi-ali-amerika-nieuwe-boek-moederschap/ |access-date= |website=Linda |language=nl}}</ref> In 2023, Hirsi Ali announced that she had become a Christian.<ref>Dissident Dialogues on "YouTube", "'Theological BULLSH*T!' Richard Dawkins Challenges Ayaan Hirsi Ali's New-Found Christianity"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjHyz_7fCg, accessed 3 June 2024).</ref><ref>Ali, Ayaan Hirsi (11 November 2023). "Why I am now a Christian". UnHerd. (https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/, accessed 24 July 2024).</ref> |