Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author and outspoken critic of fundamentalist Islam, particularly in regard to women, is in Australia this week. Interviewed (downloadable or listenable) on ABC Radio National’s ‘Life Matters’, she talks briefly about her life and relationship with family members, as well as how she arrived at her current atheism and opposition to radical Islam.
Living in the United States, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation, a charitable organisation that helps protect and defend the rights of women in the west against militant Islam. She is also the author of autobiography and biography, ‘Infidel’; ‘The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam; and currently, ‘Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilisations’
