In 2005, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank linked to neoconservatism, working from an unknown location in the Netherlands. A political crisis surrounding the potential stripping of her Dutch citizenship led to her resignation from the parliament, and led indirectly to the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet. In 2003 she was elected a member of the Tweede Kamer (the Lower House of the Dutch parliament), representing the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, under circumstances that later became the center of a political controversy. When she was eight, her family left Somalia for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, and eventually settled in Kenya. Since van Gogh's murder by a Muslim in 2004, she has lived in seclusion under the protection of Dutch authorities. She is a prominent critic of Islam, and her screenplay for Theo Van Gogh's movie Submission led to death threats. She is the estranged daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969) is a Dutch feminist, writer, and politician.
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