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Voices on Antisemitism: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute)

Series: Voices on Antisemitism
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:06:12

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes herself as a "dissident of Islam." Born in Somalia, Ali sought political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 to avoid an arranged marriage. There, she studied political science and eventually rose to a seat in the Dutch Parliament. In 2004, Ali collaborated with director Theo Van Gogh on the film Submission, which casts a critical light on Islam's treatment of women. Following the release of the film, Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist, and Ali received threats to her life. Now, as a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., Ali remains outspoken about freedom of expression, hatred of Jews, and reform of Islam.

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TRANSCRIPT:
AYAAN HIRSI ALI:
Living in Kenya, through all forms of media came this one simple?but repeated over and over again?this message that Jews were bad and inherently evil. So poor people in, shall I say underprivileged countries, are getting a daily meal of hatred. And, in a way, I would say, can you blame them? Can you blame my mother for believing this if she has never heard anything else before?

DANIEL GREENE:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes herself as a "dissident of Islam." Born in Somalia, Ali sought political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 to avoid an arranged marriage. There, she studied political science and eventually rose to a seat in the Dutch Parliament. In 2004, Ali collaborated with director Theo Van Gogh on the film Submission, which casts a critical light on Islam's treatment of women. Following the release of the film, Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extr...
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