Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the scourge of Islam

By Keziah Mendez –

Behind the scenes, the ex-Muslim Brotherhood adherent Ayaan Hirsi Ali was troubled enough to “drink enough alcohol to sterilize a hospital.”

Having left Somalia and Islam, she embraced atheism and was celebrated as “the most important intellectual to come out of Africa.” She sat alongside the Four Horseman of the Atheist Apocalypse, they a beacon of light to former Christians, she to former Muslims.

Despite being heralded as a hero, “I went through a period of crisis of fear, anxiety, depression,” Ayaan says. “I was struggling. I continued to have this big spiritual hole.”

The celebrated author of Infidel sought help through psychology books and “the best therapists.” One therapist finally told her: “Ayaan, I think you’re spiritually bankrupt.”

“What the hell?” she thought to herself. Whirling in hopelessness, she might as well re-take up the subject she had jettisoned after she saw 9/11, religion.

“The god I grew up with was a horror show,” Ayaan told her therapist. “He (Allah) created you to punish you and frighten you. As a girl and as a woman you’re just a piece of trash.”

What kind of god would you like? her therapist prompted.

It seemed like a ridiculous question to Ayaan. But as she soldiered through the therapy, she listed off god attributes. The list, it turns out, matched Jesus.

“It was actually a description of Jesus Christ and Christianity at its best,” Ayaan says. “So instead of inventing yet another new god, I started diving into Christianity.”

She and her husband, historian Niall Ferguson, were baptized in September 2023.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia. Her father was a devout Muslim and a political dissident who fled with his family to Kenya in 1980.

As a young girl, Ayaan was subjected at age 5 to female genital mutilation, the destroying of genitalia in some Muslim countries (especially Africa) to keep ladies from being unfaithful later. According to the World Health Organization, 230M girls have undergone FGM around the world.

In Kenya, Ayaan lived middle class and attended a good school.

Then the Muslim Brotherhood came to town. A spokesperson was allowed in and effectively indoctrinated everybody. Suddenly, Islam took on a purpose for Ayaan. More than just ritual cleansing and prayers, Islam was a striving for the great ideals of Islamic society – to win the world over and to win entrance into eternal paradise.

Ayaan voluntarily donned the burka. She celebrated the fatwa order to kill Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam in his book The Satanic Verses. She demanded non-Muslims convert to Islam.

But when her dad arranged her marriage to a man she had never met, she bolted. Using the excuse to visit relatives, she made her way to Holland where she applied for refugee status. She worked various jobs to establish herself, including as a cleaning and sorting post.

She was impressed by the selflessness of Christian volunteers who ministered to the newly arrived refugees. They didn’t shove their faith down her throat but gave liberally. It wasn’t what she had been told by Islam that Christians were like. She was granted political asylum at age 23.

A polyglot, she worked as a translator at the Rotterdam Refugee Center. She also translated for abused women. She became upset the Holland seemed to be turning a blind eye, supposedly out of respect for their culture and religion, to suffering of women in Islam. A man may beat his wife, he may divorce her by only saying “I divorce you” three times, he may marry four wives.

Ayaan speaks English, Dutch, Arabic, Swahili, Somali and Amharic.

Through the years, she admired how Western societies seemed to work better than Muslim societies. She read widely: Freud, Herman Philipse, Christopher Hitchens, others. She came to embrace classical liberalism and renounce Islam. She became an atheist.

She got a master’s degree in political science. She began to be called upon by politicians to give insight into issues affecting immigrants. Eventually, she joined a political party and got elected to the Dutch Parliament in 2003.

With a newfound platform, Ayaan unleashed hellfire against her former religion. She fought to close Muslim schools (Christian schools also, at the time, she unwittingly lumped them all religions together as bad).

In 2004, she collaborated with Theo van Gogh on a film critical of Islam, Submission. A Dutch terrorist shot and killed him. Ayaan went into hiding. For speaking forthrightly about her experience as a Muslim, she was called an Islamophobe.

Due to questions and complaints about her refugee application (she used her Grandmother’s last name instead of her father’s, she exaggerated the civil war she was fleeing), Ayaan immigrated to the United States in 2006.

She worked for think tanks and universities. Al-Qaeda put her on a hit list. Ever to the far, far left, the Southern Poverty Law Center designated her an “anti-Muslim extremist.” She argues that Muslims should assimilate into Western culture and not remain isolated in scattered Islamic pockets.

As wokeism partnered up with extremist Islam, Ayaan delivered withering criticism of wokeism, warning it represents the demise of Western Civilization.

Her analysis of macro political movements has been her forte, to the point that even when she explained her conversion to Christianity she contextualized it in terms of Christianity offering the best hope against the rise of Islam.

But, of course, there were personal reasons to become Christian.

“I’m fulfilled. I no longer have this need, this void. I’m going somewhere. There
are standards that I have to live by that are quite high and that’s daunting: service, duty, selflessness, check your urges, your impulses, your anger, your resentment, your pride. I find these things much more appealing than go and convert the others and if they refuse…”

She breaks off. Implied: cut off their heads.

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