CLEVELAND -- A controversial critic of Islam whisked into Cleveland Thursday night under heavy security, made a surprise appearance at the end of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony, and disappeared under the protection of armed guards.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist detractor of Islam and a former member of the Dutch Parliament, is lauded in some quarters and lambasted in others for rejecting her Muslim heritage and condemning the religion's treatment of women.
She escaped childhood beatings, an arranged marriage to a stranger and extremists who killed her documentary-film collaborator, Theo van Gogh, in Amsterdam in 2004.
When poet Rita Dove made the introduction at the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony, she compared the 38-year-old Hirsi Ali to the abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Ronn Richard, executive director of the Cleveland Foundation, more .http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/09/ayaan_hirsi_ali_fierce_critic.html
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist detractor of Islam and a former member of the Dutch Parliament, is lauded in some quarters and lambasted in others for rejecting her Muslim heritage and condemning the religion's treatment of women.
She escaped childhood beatings, an arranged marriage to a stranger and extremists who killed her documentary-film collaborator, Theo van Gogh, in Amsterdam in 2004.
When poet Rita Dove made the introduction at the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony, she compared the 38-year-old Hirsi Ali to the abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Ronn Richard, executive director of the Cleveland Foundation, more .http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/09/ayaan_hirsi_ali_fierce_critic.html
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