Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali says Australian opponents 'carrying water' for radical IslamistsHirsi Ali hits back at group of Muslim women and tells Triple J’s Hack program that Islamophobia is a ‘manufactured’ term
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – reviewThis call for historic reform, by one of Islam’s most divisive critics, only highlights the scale of the task
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The 'culture of shut up' is sometimes just rude people who disagreeIt's easy to champion free speech when you're the one speaking, but the Mozilla and Brandeis controversies show how tricky it can get
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Richard Dawkins: 'I don't think I am strident or aggressive'
Richard Dawkins is outspoken in denouncing religion. But what really drives him, he tells Andrew Anthony, is the wonder, and truth, of Darwinism
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Indirectly, I was being set up for murder'
Writer and critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells Andrew Anthony how she's learnt to embrace nomadism
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Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – reviewThe Somali/Dutch feminist combines the polemic and narrative strands of her writing to electrifying effect, writes Alexander Linklater
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I am not against Islam, but Islamic extremismLetters: What Islam most needs to do is to find ways for its vast majority – more than a billion people all over the world – to express their condemnation of a murderous minority
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'
She says Islam's backward, the Qur'an terrible. But Ayaan Hirsi Ali – whose provocative new book is extracted here – won't let a fatwa intimidate her…
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Writer to get EU protection
Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be placed under national police protection anywhere in the European Union
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Everything in moderation
Everything in moderation
Ali EterazAli Eteraz: Ayaan Hirsi Ali should note that when addressing injustice in Islam, there is a need for reconciliation between secular humanists and Muslims
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A tale of two sisters
Alexander Linklater: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her sister, Haweya, grew up in conditions that most western psychologists would consider traumatic.
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Nomad's journeyAyaan Hirsi Ali, the rebel advocate for the rights of Muslim women, explains her beliefs in her book Infidel. Anne Applebaum reviews the life of a woman whose unrelenting hostility to Islam requires her to be protected by bodyguards wherever she goes
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Taking the fight to Islam
In 1989, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali Muslim, supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. But on moving to Europe her views changed and she turned against Islam. Two years ago she fled Holland after the brutal murder of her artistic collaborator Theo van Gogh. Andrew Anthony meets the fierce critic who lives under the constant threat of death.
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Enlightenment from Somalia
Enlightenment from Somalia
Andrew AnthonyAndrew Anthony: Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a view of freedom that makes many western liberals uneasy.
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Religion and righteousness
Natasha Walter looks at two books that assess the impact of Islam on women in the west, The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma.
Book of the day Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash – review