--- title: Ayaan Hirsi Ali | TIME description: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation and the author of Infidel, Nomad, and the new book Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation. canonical: https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ayaan Ali ## Ayaan Ali _Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation and the author of_ Infidel_,_ Nomad_, and the new book_ Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation_._ ## Ayaan Ali *  May 5, 2015 ### [Jihad Comes to Texas](https://time.com/3846824/garland-texas-muhammad-jihad/) The right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred t... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 1, 2015 ### [Beware of Michiganistan](https://time.com/3765196/hirsi-ali-beware-of-michiganistan/) “It couldn’t happen here” is the attitude, but Islamic fundamentalism may become more prevalent in t... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 20, 2015 ### [Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Obama Must Confront the Threat of Radical Islam](https://time.com/3716061/white-house-barack-obama-isis-recruits-islam/) ISIS is recruiting young Muslims from around the globe to jihad, and the White House apparently does... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 16, 2014 ### [The Shahada in Sydney Reminds Us That Political Islam Is Deadly](https://time.com/3634750/shahada-in-sydney-political-islam-ayaan-hirsi-ali/) No symbol represents the soul of Islam more than the Shahada. But today there is a contest within Is... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 20, 2014 ### [Ayaan Hirsi Ali: What I'm Thankful For](https://time.com/3595656/ayaan-hirsi-ali-time-for-thanks/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/","name":"Ayaan Ali"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/"},"name":"Ayaan Ali","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation and the author of Infidel, Nomad, and the new book Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation.","url":"https://time.com/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/","sameAs":["https://x.com/ayaan"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```