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#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To...

Alex J O'Connor
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.

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