Ayaan Hirsi Ali (About this sound pronunciation (help·info); Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali Arabic: أيان حرسي علي; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan; 13 November 1969) is a Somali-Dutch feminist activist, writer, politician and founder of the women's rights organisation the AHA Foundation.[1] She is the daughter of the 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, as well as to the assassination of Theo van Gogh.
