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 ===Work with Theo van Gogh===
-She wrote the script for the short and controversial film about women and Islam directed by the Dutch filmmaker [[Theo van Gogh]]. Van Gogh was murdered in the street by a jihadist a short time after its release. The murderer left a note threatening to also kill Hirsi Ali pinned to his victim’s body with a knife.
+She wrote the script for the short and controversial film about women and Islam directed by the Dutch filmmaker [[Theo van Gogh]]. Van Gogh was murdered in the street by a jihadist a short time after its release. The murderer left a note threatening to also kill Hirsi Ali pinned to his victim’s body with a knife.<ref name= guide> [https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#executive%20summary Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists],''Southern Poverty Law Center'', October 25, 2016. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
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 ===On Islam===
-She positions herself as an ex-Muslim champion of women’s rights.
+She positions herself as an ex-Muslim champion of women’s rights:
+*In 2007, she held an interview with ''Reason'' magazine in which she said the West should 'defeat' Islam as 'we are war with Islam.' She explained her views by stating: 'There comes a moment when you crush your enemy' militarily, and added, 'There is no moderate Islam. … [T]here’s really only one Islam, defined as submission to the will of God. There’s nothing moderate about it.' She also told the journal that she had sought to 'get rid of' all Islamic schools in the Netherlands while living there. <ref>Rogier van Bakel, [https://reason.com/archives/2007/10/10/the-trouble-is-the-west/print 'The Trouble Is the West'], ''Reason'', Oct. 10, 2007. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
-In 2007, she held an interview with ''Reason'' magazine in which she said the West should 'defeat' Islam as 'we are war with Islam.' The same year, she said that Islam was 'the new fascism' and a 'destructive, nihilistic cult of death' in an interview with the ''London Evening Standard''. <ref> [https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#executive%20summary Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists],''Southern Poverty Law Center'', October 25, 2016. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
+*The same year, she said that Islam was 'the new fascism' and a 'destructive, nihilistic cult of death' in an interview with the ''London Evening Standard''. <ref name= guide> [https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#executive%20summary Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists],''Southern Poverty Law Center'', October 25, 2016. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref> A later account of that interview in ''The New York Times'' read that she had 'advocated the closing of Islamic schools in the West and said that "violence is inherent in Islam".' <ref name=Brandeis>RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TANZINA VEGA [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/brandeis-cancels-plan-to-give-honorary-degree-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-a-critic-of-islam.html?_r=0 Brandeis Cancels Plan to Give Honorary Degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Critic of Islam], ''The New York Times'', APRIL 8, 2014. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
 ===On Vlaams Belang===
 While a number of US neoconservatives have flirted with the Belgian far-right [[Vlaams Belang]] because of its opposition, to Islam, Hirsi Ali has called for the party to be banned, saying that "it hardly differs from the Hofstad [terrorist] group" and that its "way of thinking will lead straight to genocide."<ref>Daniel Luban and Eli Clifton, [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45928 POLITICS: Dutch Foe of Islam Ignores US Allies' Far Right Ties], Inter Press Service, 28 February 2009.</ref>
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 :...Ayaan Hirsi Ali was no Voltaire. For Voltaire had flung his insults at the Catholic Church, one of the two most powerful institutions of eighteenth-century France, while Ayaan risked offending only a minority that was already feeling vulnerable in the heart of Europe.<ref>Peter Byrne, [http://www.swans.com/library/art13/pbyrne30.html "Murdering Immigration in Holland"], ''Swans Commentary'', 12 March 2007</ref>
-In 2014, Brandeis University went as far as withdrawing its offer of an honorary degree for her after being made aware of her attacks on Islam. <ref name=guide> [https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-muslim-extremists#executive%20summary Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists],''Southern Poverty Law Center'', October 25, 2016. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
+In 2014, Brandeis University went as far as withdrawing its offer of an honorary degree for her after being made aware of her attacks on Islam. <ref name=Brandeis>RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TANZINA VEGA [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/brandeis-cancels-plan-to-give-honorary-degree-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-a-critic-of-islam.html?_r=0 Brandeis Cancels Plan to Give Honorary Degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Critic of Islam], ''The New York Times'', APRIL 8, 2014. Accessed 07 November 2016. </ref>
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 Hirsi Ali was working on a new book entitled ''Shortcut to Enlightenment, Part I''. She describes the book as a philosophical encounter between the prophet Muhammed and several classical and modern Enlightenment thinkers. In one of the chapters Muhammed and John Stuart Mill debate
 :'the position of women in society and the relationship between men and women. And in another chapter he has a conversation on the relationship of the individual and the community. And in another chapter he has a dialogue with Karl Popper on the open society and its enemies. And Karl Popper asserts that Islam is an enemy of the open society. And the last chapter is about what happens to the prophet after these dialogues. Does he convert to the ideas of these liberals or does he stick to his own?'<ref>[http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/283/infidel/ Infidel An Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali], ''Guernica'', February 2007.</ref>
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 ===On Vlaams Belang===
 While a number of US neoconservatives have flirted with the Belgian far-right [[Vlaams Belang]] because of its opposition, to Islam, Hirsi Ali has called for the party to be banned, saying that "it hardly differs from the Hofstad [terrorist] group" and that its "way of thinking will lead straight to genocide."<ref>Daniel Luban and Eli Clifton, [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45928 POLITICS: Dutch Foe of Islam Ignores US Allies' Far Right Ties], Inter Press Service, 28 February 2009.</ref>
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 ===Criticism===
 Ali has been celebrated as a defender of women's rights and free speech, as well as accused of being an opportunist who has ridden the wave of anti-Islam sentiment in the West to achieve fame. In his account of a controversial film-maker's death, which is also considered a study of Islam's place in Europe today, [[Ian Buruma]] responds to Ali's comparison of herself to Voltaire:<ref>Pankaj Mishra, ISLAMISMISM [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/06/07/100607crat_atlarge_mishra], ''New Yorker,'' 7 June 2010</ref>
 :...Ayaan Hirsi Ali was no Voltaire. For Voltaire had flung his insults at the Catholic Church, one of the two most powerful institutions of eighteenth-century France, while Ayaan risked offending only a minority that was already feeling vulnerable in the heart of Europe.<ref>Peter Byrne, [http://www.swans.com/library/art13/pbyrne30.html "Murdering Immigration in Holland"], ''Swans Commentary'', 12 March 2007</ref>
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 *[[Geert Wilders]] - former associate
 *[[AHA Foundation]] - founded by Hirsi Ali, with the stated mission of 'working to end honor violence in the US'
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 *[[American Enterprise Institute]]
 *[[Geert Wilders]] - former associate
-*[[AHA Foundation]] - founded by Hirsi Alia, working to end honor violence in US
+*[[AHA Foundation]] - founded by Hirsi Ali, with the stated mission of 'working to end honor violence in the US'
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 ===Criticism===
-Ali has been celebrated as a defender of women's rights and free speech, as well as accused of being an opportunist that has ridden the wave of anti-Islam sentiment in the West to achieve fame. In his account of a controversial film-maker's death which is also considered a study of Islam's place in Europe today, Ian Buruma responds to Ali's comparison of herself to Voltaire:<ref>Pankaj Mishra, [ISLAMISMISM http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/06/07/100607crat_atlarge_mishra], ''New Yorker,'' 7 June 2010</ref>
+Ali has been celebrated as a defender of women's rights and free speech, as well as accused of being an opportunist who has ridden the wave of anti-Islam sentiment in the West to achieve fame. In his account of a controversial film-maker's death, which is also considered a study of Islam's place in Europe today, [[Ian Buruma]] responds to Ali's comparison of herself to Voltaire:<ref>Pankaj Mishra, [ISLAMISMISM http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/06/07/100607crat_atlarge_mishra], ''New Yorker,'' 7 June 2010</ref>
-:...Ayaan Hirsi Ali was no Voltaire. For Voltaire had flung his insults at the Catholic Church, one of the two most powerful institutions of eighteen-century France, while Ayaan risked offending only a minority that was already feeling vulnerable in the heart of Europe.<ref>Peter Byrne, [http://www.swans.com/library/art13/pbyrne30.html "Murdering Immigration in Holland"], Swans Commentary, 12 March 2007</ref>
+:...Ayaan Hirsi Ali was no Voltaire. For Voltaire had flung his insults at the Catholic Church, one of the two most powerful institutions of eighteenth-century France, while Ayaan risked offending only a minority that was already feeling vulnerable in the heart of Europe.<ref>Peter Byrne, [http://www.swans.com/library/art13/pbyrne30.html "Murdering Immigration in Holland"], Swans Commentary, 12 March 2007</ref>
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 ===Political career===
-After completing her masters in political science, Hirsi Ali became a fellow of the [[Wiardi Beckman Foundation]], a research institute linked to the social-democratic [[Partij van de Arbeid|PvdA]]. Inspired by the Atheist Manifesto of Leiden philosopher [[Herman Philipse], she renounced Islam to become an atheist. Her emerging critique of Islamic culture was reflected in a book entitled De ''Zoontjesfabriek (The Son Factory)''. Its publication led to the first threats on her life.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
+After completing her masters in political science, Hirsi Ali became a fellow of the [[Wiardi Beckman Foundation]], a research institute linked to the social-democratic [[Partij van de Arbeid|PvdA]]. Inspired by the Atheist Manifesto of Leiden philosopher [[Herman Philipse]], she renounced Islam to become an atheist. Her emerging critique of Islamic culture was reflected in a book entitled De ''Zoontjesfabriek (The Son Factory)''. Its publication led to the first threats on her life.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
-In November 2002, Hirsi Ali switched to the [[Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie|VVD]], accusing the [[PvdA]] of ignoring the negative aspects of immigration from Islamic countries. She served as a [[VVD]] parliamentary assistant from November 2002 until January 2003, when she was elected to the Dutch parliament. She began to receive permanent police protection around this time, because of the growing threats to her life.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
+In November 2002, Hirsi Ali switched to the [[Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie]](VVD), accusing the [[PvdA]] of ignoring the negative aspects of immigration from Islamic countries. She served as a VVD parliamentary assistant from November 2002 until January 2003, when she was elected to the Dutch parliament. She began to receive permanent police protection around this time, because of the growing threats to her life.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
 In an August 2005 interview, Hirsi Ali told the ''Trouw'' newspaper:

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 ::“Mohammed is, according to our Western standards, a pervert. A tyrant. He is against freedom of expression. If you do not do what he says, you will end up on the wrong side of things. That makes me think of all those megalomaniac rulers from the Middle East: Bin Laden, Khomeini, Saddam. Do you find it strange that Saddam Hussein is there? Mohammed is his example. Mohammed is an example for all Muslim men. Do you find it strange that so many Muslim men are violent?”<ref>Arjan Visser, [http://www.trouw.nl/achtergrond/Dossiers/article1431856.ece Ayaan Hirsi Ali], Trouw, 15 August 2005.</ref>
-Muslim groups called for her to be prosecuted over the comments. In March, the public prosecutor ruled no offence had been committed because "no conclusions as to Muslims and their dignity as a group is not denied."<ref>[http://www.nisnews.nl/dossiers/fortuyn/240403_610.htm  MP Hirsi Ali Not Prosecuted for Discrimination], NIS News Bulletin, 24 April 2003.</ref>
+Muslim groups called for her to be prosecuted over the comments. In March, the public prosecutor ruled no offence had been committed because 'no conclusions as to Muslims and their dignity as a group is not denied'.<ref>[http://www.nisnews.nl/dossiers/fortuyn/240403_610.htm  MP Hirsi Ali Not Prosecuted for Discrimination], NIS News Bulletin, 24 April 2003.</ref>
-Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for [[Submission]], a short film directed by [[Theo Van Gogh]] which was shown on Dutch television in August 2004.<ref>Matthew Knight, [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/11/ww.hersi.ali/index.html Newsmaker: Ayaan Hirsi Ali], CNN.com, 12 October 2007.</ref>The film portrayed violence towards women in Islamic society and featured verses from the Koran projected onto women's bodies.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>Hirsi Ali went into police protection following the film's release after receiving death threats.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm Gunman kills Dutch film director], BBC News, 2 November 2004.</ref>
+Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for [[Submission]], a short film directed by [[Theo Van Gogh]] which was shown on Dutch television in August 2004.<ref>Matthew Knight, [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/11/ww.hersi.ali/index.html Newsmaker: Ayaan Hirsi Ali], CNN.com, 12 October 2007.</ref>The film portrayed violence towards women in Islamic society and featured verses from the Koran projected onto women's bodies.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>Hirsi Ali went into police protection following the film's release after receiving death threats.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm Gunman kills Dutch film director], ''BBC News'', 2 November 2004.</ref>
-On 2 November, Van Gogh was murdered by [[Mohammed Bouyeri]], who left a death threat against Hirsi Ali pinned to his chest with a dagger.<ref>Matthew Knight, [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/11/ww.hersi.ali/index.html Newsmaker: Ayaan Hirsi Ali], CNN.com, 12 October 2007.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm Gunman kills Dutch film director], BBC News, 2 November 2004.</ref>Hirsi Ali went into hiding at first in the Netherlands, and then in New York.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
+On 2 November, Van Gogh was murdered by [[Mohammed Bouyeri]], who left a death threat against Hirsi Ali pinned to his chest with a dagger.<ref>Matthew Knight, [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/11/ww.hersi.ali/index.html Newsmaker: Ayaan Hirsi Ali], CNN.com, 12 October 2007.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm Gunman kills Dutch film director], ''BBC News'', 2 November 2004.</ref>Hirsi Ali went into hiding at first in the Netherlands, and then in New York.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
 She returned to the Dutch parliament on 18 January 2005. On 18 February, she revealed the location of herself and [[Geert Wilders]], who had also been in hiding, and demanded a secured house which she was granted a week later.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
-In 2006, she received the [[Reader's Digest]] European of the Year award. In her acceptance speech, she urged action against a nuclear armed Iran, and warned that [[President Ahmadinejad]]'s conference questioning the reality of the holocaust should be taken seriously:
+In 2006, she received the [[Reader's Digest]] European of the Year award. In her acceptance speech, she urged action against a nuclear-armed Iran, and warned that [[President Ahmadinejad]]'s conference questioning the reality of the holocaust should be taken seriously:
-::"Before I came to Europe, I'd never heard of the Holocaust. That is the case with millions of people in the Middle East. Such a conference should be able to convince many people away from their denial of the genocide against the Jews."<ref>Joe Poprzeczny, Moderate voices speaking out, WA Business News (Australia), April 20, 2006.</ref>
+::"Before I came to Europe, I'd never heard of the Holocaust. That is the case with millions of people in the Middle East. Such a conference should be able to convince many people away from their denial of the genocide against the Jews."<ref>Joe Poprzeczny, Moderate voices speaking out, ''WA Business News'' (Australia), April 20, 2006.</ref>
-In March 2006, Hirsi Ali was one of 12 writers, notably including Salman Rushdie, who put their names to a statement warning of "a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism" in the wake of the Danish cartoons controversy.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4764730.stm Full text: Writers' statement on cartoons, BBC News, 1 March 2006.</ref>
+In March 2006, Hirsi Ali was one of 12 writers, notably including [[Salman Rushdie]], who put their names to a statement warning of 'a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism' in the wake of the Danish cartoons controversy.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4764730.stm Full text: Writers' statement on cartoons, BBC News, 1 March 2006.</ref>
 On 27 April, a Dutch judge ruled that Hirsi Ali had to leave her house, after her neighbours complained she was a security risk.<ref>Sohail Choudhury, [http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/175 Controversial Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Muslim turned atheist, to resign from Dutch Parliament], Asian Tribune, 20 May 2006.</ref>
-Hirsi Ali is currently Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where she is “researching the relationship between the West and Islam; women’s rights in Islam; violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments; and Islam in Europe.”<ref>AEI Profile, [http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.117,filter.all/scholar.asp, Ayaan Hirsi Ali].</ref> In October 2007, Hirsi Ali was forced to briefly return to the Netherlands, where she continued her work from a secret address, after the Dutch government declined to continue to pay for security measures to ensure her safety abroad. Hirsi Ali is now back in the United States.
+Hirsi Ali is a resident fellow at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] where she is 'researching the relationship between the West and Islam; women’s rights in Islam; violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments; and Islam in Europe'.<ref>AEI Profile, [http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.117,filter.all/scholar.asp, Ayaan Hirsi Ali].</ref> In October 2007, Hirsi Ali was forced to briefly return to the Netherlands, where she continued her work from a secret address, after the Dutch government declined to continue to pay for security measures to ensure her safety abroad. Hirsi Ali is now back in the United States.
-Hirsi Ali wasworking on a new book entitled ''Shortcut to Enlightenment, Part I''. She describes the book as a philosophical encounter between the prophet Muhammed and several classical and modern Enlightenment thinkers. In one of the chapters Muhammed and John Stuart Mill debate
+Hirsi Ali was working on a new book entitled ''Shortcut to Enlightenment, Part I''. She describes the book as a philosophical encounter between the prophet Muhammed and several classical and modern Enlightenment thinkers. In one of the chapters Muhammed and John Stuart Mill debate
-::"the position of women in society and the relationship between men and women. And in another chapter he has a conversation on the relationship of the individual and the community. And in another chapter he has a dialogue with Karl Popper on the open society and its enemies. And Karl Popper asserts that Islam is an enemy of the open society. And the last chapter is about what happens to the prophet after these dialogues. Does he convert to the ideas of these liberals or does he stick to his own?"<ref>[http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/283/infidel/ Infidel An Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali], Guernica, February 2007.</ref>
+:'the position of women in society and the relationship between men and women. And in another chapter he has a conversation on the relationship of the individual and the community. And in another chapter he has a dialogue with Karl Popper on the open society and its enemies. And Karl Popper asserts that Islam is an enemy of the open society. And the last chapter is about what happens to the prophet after these dialogues. Does he convert to the ideas of these liberals or does he stick to his own?'<ref>[http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/283/infidel/ Infidel An Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali], ''Guernica'', February 2007.</ref>
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