Ayaan Hirsi Ali Restyles Herself with Launch of Children's Book

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch writer, feminist and former MP has written her first book for children, a work of fiction that risks unleashing a fresh storm of anger from her critics. Adan and Eva tells the story of a friendship between a Jewish girl, whose parents are driven by money, and a Muslim boy who is beaten by his father.

Ms Hirsi Ali, one of the world's most outspoken critics of radical Islam, has lived under the shadow of a fatwa since the 2004 murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom she made a film about Islam's treatment of women. She is bracing for another furore. "Everything I have ever said or written has been met with hostility and …