Ayaan Hirsi Ali (edit name/settings)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born on November 13, 1969 in Somalia with a birth name Ayaan Hirsi Magan. She is a daughter of Somali revolutionist Hirsi Magan Isse and Asha Artan. Because of her father's political believes her family moved a lot, going from Somalia over Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia and finally settling in Kenya. When her father send her to Canada for an arranged marriage, she fled to Netherlands and obtained asylum. In 2003 she was elected a member of the House of Representatives, the position she used to bring the attention of Dutch public to problem of Muslim immigrants, particulary their abuse of women and girls.
In 2004 she and Theo van Gogh made a short film about treatment of women in Islamic society called "Submission". Theo van Gogh was murdered for it by Muslim extremists, and Ayaan was forced into hiding.
On May 16 Hirsi Ali resigned from Parliament, and soon afterwords moved to United States.