“Why I Am Now a Christian”

“I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali [italics]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a refugee from Somalia that became a Dutch politician who, despite being a Muslim at the time, criticized the 9/11 attack. In 2004, in collaboration with Theo Van Gogh (as producer and director), she made a short film that was critical of Islam (Submission). As a result, both she and Van Gogh received death threats. He was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam.

She did not back down. She wrote a memoir (Infidel) and became an American. “Since the early 2000s,” says Bari Weiss, introducing Hirsi Ali’s essay in The Free Press, she has been “among the most prominent atheists in the world. Or at least she was until late last week, when she announced… that she has converted to Christianity.”

I read Hirsi Ali’s essay and was impressed with her honesty and courage. Click here.

But there was something about her most recent conversion that didn’t sit well with me. I discovered what that was when I read this.