article_snippet.sent: Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 45, emigrated to the U.S. in 2006 after facing death threats in the Netherlands, where she had been a member of parliament and a target for extremists after renouncing she faith and becoming an atheist.
article_snippet.sent: The best place to be Christian is in the U.S. Hirsi Ali was raised in a strict Muslim family, but after surviving a civil war, genital mutilation, beatings and an arranged marriage, Hirsi Ali renounced the faith in Hirsi Ali 30s.
article_snippet.sent: the U.S.' Hirsi Ali releases the U.S.' Hirsi Ali new book, Heretic:
article_snippet.sent: In 2007, Hirsi Ali helped establish the AHA Foundation, which works to protect and defend the rights of women in the West from oppression justified by religion and culture, according to the AHA Foundation website.
article_snippet.sent: the U.S.' Hirsi Ali releases the U.S.' Hirsi Ali new book, Heretic:
article_snippet.sent: her new book, Heretic includes Hirsi Ali thoughts on the January shootings in Paris at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
article_snippet.sent: Hirsi Ali previous books include the best-selling memoir Infidel.
article_snippet.sent: Hirsi Ali has written and spoken extensively of Hirsi Ali experience as a Muslim girl in East Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Hirsi Ali moved to the Netherlands as a young woman, and Hirsi Ali was later elected to the Dutch Parliament.
article_snippet.sent: Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for Submission, a 2004 film critical of the treatment of Muslim women.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after the Dutch Parliament release, the director, Theo van Gogh, was murdered on an Amsterdam street by a radical Islamist, who also pinned to the victim's body a threat to kill the U.S.' Hirsi Ali.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised in a strict Muslim family, but after genital mutilation, beatings and an arranged marriage, she renounced the faith in she 30s .