September 20, 2017After Honor Killing of Noor Almaleki, Ending Honor Violence in the U.S. Became Detective Boughey’s Life PurposeThis month, the AHA Foundation sat down with Detective Chris Boughey of the Peoria Police Department to discuss […]
September 20, 2017Little girls are being ‘cut on kitchen tables’ in Manhattan as FGM grows at alarming rate – Metro UKSome practitioners are happy to perform brutal female genital mutilation (FGM) procedures on little girls on kitchen tables […]
September 14, 2017FGM survivor speaks of night she was forcefully cut as she fights for end to brutal procedure – Metro UKMariya Taher was seven when strangers forced her to the ground and cut her clitoral hood. She doesn’t […]
August 23, 2017AHA Supporter Appeals to Miami Herald, Brings Attention To Child Marriage in FloridaPictured from right to left is our Senior Director, Amanda Parker, with Members of World Wings including Alicia […]
August 23, 2017Representative Heather Sirocki of Maine and Why the Bill Against Female Genital Mutilation Keeps Being Shot Down in Her StateThis month, the AHA Foundation sat down with Maine State Representative, Heather Sirocki, who has served the Scarborough […]
August 23, 2017Survivor of Female Genital Mutilation Pleads to Other Parents to Have Mercy on Their GirlsIt is the recovery room in a hospital in Egypt. The girl is six or seven years old. […]
July 19, 2017American Psychotherapist Devotes Her Career to Helping Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Heal From TraumaOriginally published on 7/19/2017 American Psychotherapist Devotes Her Career to Helping Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Heal […]
July 19, 2017While His State Makes the News Due to Cases of Genital Mutilation, This Michigan Physician Argues for Cutting Off the Roots of the PracticeDr. Mohammed Arsiwala is a board certified internist who practices urgent care medicine in Southeast Michigan. He is […]
July 19, 2017Books that Have Inspired Us: AHA’s Summer Reading RecommendationsA good book can take you into another person’s world. At the AHA Foundation we encourage supporters to […]
July 17, 201724 states have no laws against female genital mutilation. Here’s why that needs to change. – MicUnder a series of new laws signed Tuesday, Michigan became the 26th state to place a criminal ban […]
July 13, 2017Your Voice, Your Future Roundtable – “THE FGM CONTROVERSY” – WGMEAn hour long discussion on Female Genital Mutilation. Panel: Imam Abdullah Dibba Shelby Quast, Director of Equality Now […]
July 5, 2017‘To Change People’s Minds’ Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali sees a better way to fight terrorism – Stanford MagazineAyaan Hirsi Ali has been called the best-known feminist intellectual ever to come out of Africa. In the West, […]
June 23, 2017Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Q. Nomani Respond to Readers – The New York TimesLast week, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Q. Nomani testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and […]
June 22, 2017U.S. Campuses Harbor Censorship, Obstruct Free Speech in Battle of IdeasZouhair giving a speech at his university. By Zouhair Mazouz, Director of Campus Initiatives at the AHA Foundation […]
June 22, 2017Female Genital Cutting Case in Michigan Urges State Legislators to Enact Anti-FGM LawBy Amanda Parker, Senior Director of the AHA Foundation The AHA Foundation has successfully worked with many states […]
June 22, 2017Shocked About Child Marriage in Massachusetts, High School Student Takes Action to Help Stop the AbuseIn Massachusetts between 2010 and 2014 almost 200 children, mostly girls were married, some as young as 15. […]
June 22, 2017Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Q. Nomani: Kamala Harris Was Silenced. Then She Silenced Us. – The New York TimesLast week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a […]
June 20, 2017What One Senate Hearing Taught Me About Discussing Islam in America – Huffington Post“Mrs. Hirsi Ali, do you still think Islam is a death cult?” shouted a man wearing what looked […]
June 14, 2017AHA Foundation Featured on The Tipping Point Discussing Female Genital MutilationAHA Foundation’s Senior Director, Amanda Parker, was featured on the show Tipping Point to discuss the Virginia Imam […]
June 6, 2017We Must No Longer Turn a Blind Eye to Islamic Extremism But Instead Root Out Radicals Who Hate the West – An Oped by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The SunOriginally Published by The Sun: 6 June 2017 THERE has been an unrelenting pattern of low-tech terror waged […]