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Hirsi Ali's father Hirsi Magan Isse was a member of a prominent Somali clan who studied abroad in Italy and the United States. Her mother, Asha, had worked in her youth in Aden and the Gulf where she was attracted to the Wahhabi version of Islam.[[1]]( In 1969, the year Hirsi Ali was born her father was imprisoned by Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre") . He escaped the country in 1972, and the family were not reunited until 1978.[[2]]( Although her father did not believe in female circumcision, Hirsi Ali was subjected to it while he was away.[[3]]( In 1980, they moved to Kenya, where Magan Isse subsequently left them to join a group of political exiles in Ethiopia.[[4]]( In 1992, Hirsi Ali fled to the Netherlands via Germany to escape an arranged marriage with a cousin in Canada. She claimed asylum using a false name, maintaining she had come directly from Somalia rather than Kenya. [[5]]( In a statement some years later, Hirsi Ali said of this: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not the first person to use false pretences to try to find a better life in the West, nor will she be the last. But the muddy account given in this book of her so-called forced marriage becomes more troubling when one considers that Ms Hirsi Ali has built a career out of portraying herself as the lifelong victim of fanatical Muslims.[[7]]( After gaining asylum, Hirsi Ali undertook a number of short-term jobs and courses in Dutch and social work. She then studied political science at the University of Leiden until 2000. She also worked as an interpreter and translator for the Dutch National Migration Service. In this role she became critical of the Dutch asylum system, which she regarded as favouring more educated asylum seekers.[[8]]( In November 2002, Hirsi Ali switched to the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie") (VVD), accusing the PvdA") of ignoring the negative aspects of immigration from Islamic countries. She served as a VVD parliamentary assistant from November 2002 until January 2003, when she was elected to the Dutch parliament. She began to receive permanent police protection around this time, because of the growing threats to her life.[[10]]( Hirsi Ali wrote the screenplay for Submission") , a short film directed by Theo Van Gogh") which was shown on Dutch television in August 2004.[[13]]( The film portrayed violence towards women in Islamic society and featured verses from the Koran projected onto women's bodies.[[14]]( Hirsi Ali went into police protection following the film's release after receiving death threats.[[15]]( She returned to the Dutch parliament on 18 January 2005. On 18 February, she revealed the location of herself and Geert Wilders , who had also been in hiding, and demanded a secured house which she was granted a week later.[[19]]( In 2006, she received the Reader's Digest") European of the Year award. In her acceptance speech, she urged action against a nuclear-armed Iran, and warned that President Ahmadinejad") 's conference questioning the reality of the holocaust should be taken seriously: On 27 April, a Dutch judge ruled that Hirsi Ali had to leave her house, after her neighbours complained she was a security risk.[[22]]( Hirsi Ali was working on a new book entitled Shortcut to Enlightenment, Part I . She describes the book as a philosophical encounter between the prophet Muhammed and several classical and modern Enlightenment thinkers. In one of the chapters Muhammed and John Stuart Mill debate 'the position of women in society and the relationship between men and women. And in another chapter he has a conversation on the relationship of the individual and the community. And in another chapter he has a dialogue with Karl Popper on the open society and its enemies. And Karl Popper asserts that Islam is an enemy of the open society. And the last chapter is about what happens to the prophet after these dialogues. Does he convert to the ideas of these liberals or does he stick to his own?'[[24]]( She wrote the script