Ayaan Hirsi Ali Bio

• Has been under guard since September 2002 when she publicly announced on the radio that although being a Muslim was a part of her identity she didn' t believe in God confirming herself as an apostate
• In 1995 attended Leiden University to study political science
• Fled to the Netherlands in 1992 where she gained entry as a single Somali woman fleeing danger She was sent to an asylum seekers' center in Leintern
• Speaks six languages English Arabic Somali Amharic Swahili and Dutch
• Her father a Somali rebel was arrested by the authorities under the rule of Siad Barre
• From the age of six or seven she and her family were living the lives of exiles moving from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia and to Kenya where they stayed for 10 years