Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. She sought political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 in order to escape an arranged marriage. She became a member of the Dutch parliament and made a film with Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh that led to his assassination by a Muslim extremist in 2004. She was a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and is currently a fellow at the Kennedy Government School at Harvard University, a member of The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center, and head of the AHA Foundation, a charity that helps protect and defend the rights of women in the West against militant Islam.