Fact: her real name is Ayaan Hirsi Magan. She said she changed it to prevent her family from finding her after running out on her new husband during a visit to Germany.
Fiction: she told Dutch authorities she was born in 1967.
Fact: she was born in 1969. She said she lied to prevent Dutch authorities from tracking her real identity.
Fiction: she claimed to have fled to Holland from war-torn Somalia.
Fact: she caught a train from Germany, following her marriage to a Canadian cousin, after spending more than a decade in Kenya. She spent only seven years in Somalia as a young girl.
Thought you might like to read the truth. Sorce is UK newspaper
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4985636.stm
She is expected to head for Washington, to work for the conservative US think tank American Enterprise Institute.
Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk has said that in her view Ms Hirsi Ali's lies about her name and age make her Dutch citizenship - granted in 1997 - invalid.
She may expect a warmer welcome in the US, where Time magazine has named her one of the most influential thinkers of our time.
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"after spending more than a decade in Kenya"
"Actually according to goggle Kenya is 38% protestant, 28% roman catholic and 6% Muslim. I do think someone is floating some BS."
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Kenya
International Religious Freedom Report 2005
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
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but certain groups dominate particular regions. For example, North Eastern Province, where the population is chiefly Somali, is mostly Muslim. Muslims also predominate in Coast Province, except for its western areas, which mostly are Christian. Eastern Province is approximately 50 percent Muslim (primarily in the north) and 50 percent Christian (primarily in the south). The rest of the country largely is Christian, with some persons practicing traditional indigenous religions.
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The Constitution and the Kadhis' Courts Act of 1967 established a venue to have certain types of civil cases adjudicated based on Islamic law. The Constitution provides for the establishment of Kadhis' courts where "all the parties profess the Muslim religion" in suits addressing "questions of Muslim law relating to personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance." Articles 65 and 67 make it clear that Kadhis' courts are "subordinate" courts, meaning that the secular High Court has jurisdiction to supervise any civil or criminal proceedings before a subordinate court. It also indicates that if a question involving constitutional or legal interpretation arises in a Kadhis' court proceeding, any party involved in the proceedings may refer the question to the High Court.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51478.htm
More than a third of women in Kenya between the ages of 15 and 49 have been subjected to some form of genital circumcision. It is clear that the tradition will be difficult to eradicate.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0220_020219_TVcircumcision.html