Ayaan Hirsi Ali: An obscure baker helped lead me to Christ | ADF Summit 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: An obscure baker helped lead me to Christ | ADF Summit 2025

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, founder of the AHA Foundation, a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and founder of Courage.Media. She is the bestselling author or Infidel and Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. Ms. Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1969. As she grew up, she embraced Islam and strove to live as a devout Muslim. In 1992 she fled to the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage. There she was given asylum and, in time, citizenship. She quickly learned Dutch and was able to study at Leiden University. From 2003 to 2006, Ms. Hirsi Ali served as an elected member of the Dutch Parliament. She then moved to the United States and, in 2007, founded the AHA Foundation to protect and defend the rights of women in the United States and around the world from harmful traditional practices. --- Kristen Waggoner is the CEO, president, and chief counsel of Alliance Defending Freeomd: the world's largest legal organization advancing every person's God-given right to live and speak the truth. With more than 450 team members in 10 offices worldwide, ADF is at the forefront of today's most consequential battles in law, public policy, and culture. Under Waggoner's leadership - first as head of U.S. litigation and now as CEO - ADF has played a role in nearly 80 U.S. Supreme Court victories and won 16 of its own cases before the Court, including serving as legal counsel with Mississippi in the landmark Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Waggoner personally argued several of ADF's Supreme Court cases, including the well-known Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative cases, winning major victories for free expression. She has the honor of leading ADF International, which, like its U.S. counterpart, defends religious liberty, free speech, parental rights, human life, and biological reality around the world. ADFI has a strong record of success at the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations, and other international tribunals, while securing the release of more than 2,000 imprisoned Christians and the reopening of more than 1,000 churches. In her speeches, articles, and media appearances, Waggoner loves to tell the stories of ADF's clients and cases, connecting them to the larger themes shaping our culture and public life. She is passionate about defending truth and freedom as essential values for human flourishing. After law school, Waggoner clerked at the Washington Supreme Court and spent over 15 years at a Seattle law firm before joining ADF. --- ADF Summit 2025 was a gathering of leaders from many different spheres, including law, public policy, media, business, education, and Christian leadership. The inspiring event focused on advancing the right to live and speak the truth for all people, while offering a compelling vision of freedom and human flourishing. House Speaker Mike Johnson addressed attendees at Summit and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, ADF President, CEO, and Chief Counsel Kristen Waggoner, ADF International’s Executive Director Paul Coleman, Hoover Institution Fellow and Founder of Courage.Media Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and many other influential voices spoke at the event. It was organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the world’s largest legal organization advancing every person’s God-given right to live and speak the truth. Donate to support ADF’s work: https://adflegal.org/donate/