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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali (] , born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, on 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar, and former Dutch politician. She received international attention as a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, actively opposing forced marriage, honor violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation. She has founded an organisation for the defense of women's rights, the AHA Foundation.
Mark Juergensmeyer Mark Juergensmeyer (born 1940 in Carlinville, Illinois) is an American scholar in religious studies and sociology and a writer best known for his studies of religious violence and global religion. He also writes on conflict resolution and on South Asian religion and society, and is a pioneer in the field of global studies. He is a commentator on national radio and television, and has written or edited over twenty books, including "Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State" (2008), and "Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence" (2003). Both are based on interviews with religious activists around the world—including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States.