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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian | The Free Press

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I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war. By Ayaan Hirsi Ali November 14, 2023 Get all of our stories delivered straight to your inbox. One of the biggest stories of the past few days didn’t happen in Washington or Gaza or Tehran, but was an invisible change that happened inside the heart and mind of one woman: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan is many things: she is a refugee from Somalia, where she was the victim of female genital mutilation; she was a Dutch politician whose criticism of Islam, the religion she was raised in, led to death threats. Theo van Gogh, her collaborator on Submission, a film about Islam, was murdered in the streets of Amsterdam. The killer left a note stabbed into his body warning that Ayaan would be next. A normal person would have shut up. But Ayaan is not normal. She wrote a memoir, Infidel. She became a mother. She became an American. And she never, ever quieted her voice. It is for all

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian (Photo by Christian Marquardt/Getty Images) I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war. This article is part of The Zeitgeist. Follow to get everything we publish on ideas, arts, entertainment, dating, faith and more. One of the biggest stories of the past few days didn’t happen in Washington or Gaza or Tehran, but was an invisible change that happened inside the heart and mind of one woman: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan is many things: she is a refugee from Somalia, where she…

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