Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This goo was worth a point in March 2024.
publication date: Thursday, March 7, 2024 (part of March 2024)
category: 
Activism
clue: This tri-continental writer and parliamentarian could no longer submit to Islam after 9/11.
explanation: Ali, born in Somalia, lived in the Netherlands where she renounced her faith after 9/11. She participated in the film Submission that led to the murder of its director Theo Van Gogh and death threats against Ali. She served in the Dutch parliament for a brief and contentious time before moving to the United States. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
Similar Goos
Russell Means
The last of his tribe, he inhabited a land where white men fear to tread. Go »
Walter White
He was full of contradictions: Being Black but looking white, advancing colored people while being White, and doing good while breaking bad. Go »
Malcolm X
This guy was a racial x-factor in the sixties. Go »
Rosa Parks
When she parks her butt on a bus, it stays on the bus, in Montgomery or otherwise. Go »
Dan Mathews
Is it any surprise that an outspoken animal rights activist is so misanthropic? Go »
