Award by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. 2012, she was awarded the Axel Springer Honorary Prize, "for her courageous commitment – her approach to freedom and her courage to express a nonconformist opinion." 2015, she was awarded the Lantos Human Rights Prize for fearless leaders, reformers and rebels who have been willing to defy social and cultural norms to speak out against human rights abuses. Other laureates were Rebiya Kadeer and Irshad Manji. 2016, she was awarded the Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education 2017, she was awarded the Oxi Day Courage Award by the Washington Oxi Day Foundation See also Yasmine Mohammed Maryam Namazie Mona Walter Notes References Further reading Scroggins, Deborah. Wanted Women. Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui, HarperCollins, 2012 External links 1969 births Living people 20th-century atheists 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century atheists Activists against female genital mutilation American atheism activists American critics of Islam American Enterprise Institute American feminist writers American former Muslims American people of Somali descent American political writers American screenwriters American women's rights activists Atheist feminists American atheist writers Former Muslim critics of Islam Critics of multiculturalism Dutch emigrants to the United States Dutch former Muslims Dutch women in politics Dutch-language writers Free speech activists Leiden University alumni Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Dutch critics of Islam New Atheism People from Mogadishu People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians People with acquired American citizenship Somalian atheists Somalian emigrants to the Netherlands Somalian feminists Dutch classical liberals Somalian former Muslims Somalian non-fiction writers Somalian refugees Somalian women's rights activists Somalian women writers Victims of human rights abuses Women's rights support from the irreligious Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists 20th-century Somalian women writers 20th-century Somalian writers 21st-century Somalian women writers 21st-century Somalian writers American women non-fiction writers Hoover Institution people African-American atheists Member of the Mont Pelerin Society Violence against women in Somalia