Besides Somalia and the Netherlands, Ms Hirsi Ali has lived in Ethiopia, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.
In truth, life had been getting harder for Ms Hirsi Ali for some time.
For the past five years, Hirsi Ali has lived under threat of death for her views.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is arguably the bravest and most remarkable woman of our times.
In her life and work, Hirsi Ali personifies the central challenges of our times.
Ms. Hirsi Ali is the author of "Nomad: My Journey from Islam to America" (Free Press, 2010).
As a teenager, Hirsi Ali tried to be a faithful Muslim and even joined the Muslim Brotherhood.
Still, many will feel that Ms Hirsi Ali has the right to express strong feelings on these matters.
Whereas Mr Ramadan comes across as prickly and humourless, Ms Hirsi Ali plays up her glamorous feminine side.
Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, abandoned to fanatics
Some immigrants are, like Ms Hirsi Ali, already joining the Dutch middle class, both in incomes and in lifestyle.
In America, Ms Hirsi Ali found the funds to set up a foundation to study violence against Muslim women.
That may not be the same as an instant expulsion order, but it led to Ms Hirsi Ali's abrupt resignation from parliament.
Hirsi Ali was immediately forced into hiding and moved from safe house to safe house, sometimes more than once a day, for months.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, abandoned to fanatics
The Dutch government should recognize a scandal in the making and rediscover its obligation to provide Hirsi Ali with the protection she was promised.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, abandoned to fanatics
Abdirahman Muhammad was elected by parliament on 8 January 2009, defeating Gen Mahmud Muse Hirsi "Adde" Muse, who had been in power since 2005.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a public intellectual from Somalia who renounced Islam and now lives in America, is entirely against the practice, even the symbolic form.
The Dutch Parliament will be debating Hirsi Ali's case this week.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, abandoned to fanatics
Ms Hirsi Ali is a Somali refugee who has made a career in Dutch politics by standing against radical Islam and defending her adopted homeland's liberal values.
Hirsi Ali first fled to the Netherlands as a refugee from Somalia in 1992 after declining to submit to a forced marriage to a man she did not know.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, abandoned to fanatics
Hirsi Ali's rebellion against Islam was personal, not political.
An ardent campaigner for the rights of Muslim women, Ms Hirsi Ali started her political career as a Dutch social-democrat, and then moved to the free-market and right-wing liberal party, the VVD.
Former Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali was forced to flee Holland and live surrounded by bodyguards for the past six years because she has made an issue of Islamic oppression of women and girls.
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Each family member is held to epitomise some recurring problem which is, in Ms Hirsi Ali's view, characteristic of patriarchal societies, especially when they are uprooted but trying desperately to cling to the old ways.
Just as her forebears had very clear ideas on how everybody should behave, in accordance with their sex and position in the family, Ms Hirsi Ali has no hesitation in offering prescriptions of her own.
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