Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an award-winning humanitarian and courageous freedom fighter, standing as one of the most influential and outspoken political figures of our time. Yet, she is also demonized by conservative Muslims worldwide, including members of her own clan and family, for speaking out against the injustices of the Islamic faith. Determined to voice the truth, Ms. Hirsi Ali speaks about the importance of freedom of speech and the defense of the principles of the Enlightenment, the need to reform Islam, and the rights of Muslim women.
Ms. Hirsi Ali is currently a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, researching the relationship between the West and Islam, women’s rights in Islam, and violence against women propagated in the name of religious and cultural arguments. Ms. Hirsi Ali received the Prix Simone de Beauvoir in February 2008, in honor of her spirited resistance to all forms of oppression. She has published a bestselling memoir, Infidel and a collection of essays entitled The Caged Virgin.
New Topics Include:
- Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West
Of the clashes between Muslim and Western society in faith, ideals, attitude, habits and approach to life, free speech is the fundamental value that cannot be compromised. Western governments and media outlets cannot allow themselves to be bullied into overriding the principles of free speech due to threats of retaliatory violence. Living with round-the-clock protection, Ayaan's willingness to speak out on the social and political inequalities prevailing throughout Islamic world have made her a target by extremists. Threatened time and again with death, this courageous woman refuses to be silenced.
- Ladies First
Is there a direct relationship between the radical jihadists' opposition to democracy and their systematic abuse of women? Women have virtually no rights in this radical world: They must conceal themselves, cannot hold jobs, and have been subjected to honor killings. Would most women in Muslim countries vote for a candidate for public office who supported such oppressive rules? Born and raised in a patriarchal culture that has distorted the “human rights and democracy of Islam” over the centuries to suit their own needs while giving women an inferior status, Ms. Hirsi Ali was astonished to find men in Western countries who said, "Ladies first." Her fascinating talk explores the relationship between women and Islam today and what the future of social and political freedom for Muslim women means for the world at large.
- Coming to America
From being a young woman who strove to live as a devout Muslim, her subjection to female genital mutilation and escape from an arranged marriage to living in a culture valuing life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Ms. Hirsi Ali recounts her journey as an African immigrant to her new life in the United States.
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