After President Donald Trump took to the World Economic Forum stage in Davos to declare that Western civilization should defend itself from an existential assault, Somali-born activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentioned “Trump is right.”
Trump shocked different politicians and leaders gathered in Switzerland Tuesday evening by declaring, “The West cannot mass import foreign cultures.”
“The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own,” he mentioned. “We’re taking individuals from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed [state]. It’s not a nation, obtained no authorities, obtained no police, obtained no navy, obtained no nothing.
“The explosion of prosperity, in conclusion, and progress that constructed the West didn’t come from our tax cuts. It in the end got here from our very particular tradition. This is the valuable inheritance that America and Europe have in frequent.
“We share it, we share it. But we have to keep it strong. We have to become stronger, more successful and more prosperous than ever. We have to defend that culture and rediscover the spirit that lifted the West from the depths of the Dark Ages to the pinnacle of human achievement.”
Somali-born activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentioned “Trump is right” after his speech in Davos on Jan. 21, 2026. Fox News
In response, Hirsi Ali informed Fox News Digital Trump is speaking a crucial reality.
“I don’t think it’s an important thing. I think it is the most important thing,” she mentioned. “Trump is right … and I can’t think of a better and more powerful platform than that of the president of the United States to say, ‘Hey, you guys wake up.’”
As a toddler in Somalia, Hirsi Ali was subjected to a extreme type of feminine genital mutilation. Later in life, she fled the nation to flee a pressured marriage and served as a Dutch lawmaker.
She is now based mostly within the US and makes use of her platform to advocate for girls’s rights, critique Islam and voice help for Western greatness.
“I think every American and every European should know that what the president is trying to say is that what made America and Europe great is there’s this unique culture. If we don’t understand that culture and if we do not defend it, we risk losing it,” she mentioned.
President Donald Trump factors from the stage throughout his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. AP
As a toddler in Somalia, Hirsi Ali was subjected to a extreme type of feminine genital mutilation. Later in life, she fled the nation to flee a pressured marriage and served as a Dutch lawmaker. Getty Images
“The economy is very important. The military is very important. All these other aspects of government are extremely important, but more important than all of that is our value system. And it’s our heritage. And it is our national identity.”
Regarding Trump’s critique of the Somali immigrant inhabitants’s involvement within the large Minnesota fraud scheme, Hirsi Ali mentioned, “I wholeheartedly agree with the president.”
“The president is right when he says Somalia hasn’t even made it into a nation,” she mentioned. “Every attempt at building something, making something out of Somalia has always failed because of the clan code, because of Islam, because of Marxism. We’ve had all the bad ideologies, and, as Somalis, we’ve run away with them.”
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Further, Hirsi Ali mentioned the state of affairs in Minnesota exposes a “subversive agenda in the United States to transform it and to Islamize it using American institutions and the American vocabulary of civil rights.”
“You see that the Somalis exploit and extract the benefit system,” she mentioned. “They inform everybody, ‘If you expose this, investigate it, object to it, stop it, you’re racist. You’re an Islamophobe. You are a bigot.
“If we keep on doing what we are doing, getting huge numbers of people from the Third World to come and establish themselves in the United States and European countries and depend on welfare benefits, that is to take and take and never contribute, then we’re setting ourselves up not only for failure. We’re committing a cultural and national and political suicide.”
To fight this, Hirsi Ali mentioned European nations should observe the Trump administration’s instance in sealing their borders. She mentioned the US and Europe should additionally handle their broad welfare techniques, which she mentioned are “just too expensive.”
Regarding Trump’s critique of the Somali immigrant inhabitants’s involvement within the large Minnesota fraud scheme, Hirsi Ali mentioned, “I wholeheartedly agree with the president.” Getty Images
In Minnesota, Hirsi Ali advocated a hardline stance on the Somali immigrant inhabitants to assimilate into American tradition.
“We’ve got to force them either to assimilate, or we’ve got to give them that choice and say, ‘If you don’t want to assimilate into American society, then you will be denaturalized,’” she mentioned.
“This isn’t just like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s another day in politics. It’s existential.’”
Hirsi Ali known as Trump’s Davos speech a “breakthrough” in getting European leaders to grasp that defending Western civilization have to be “priority No. 1.”
“JD Vance put it this way: [It’s] not what are we fighting against, but what are we fighting for? What are we fighting to preserve? If you can’t answer that question, then I think you are lost. And the European leaders are lost. And I think he’s trying to help them find their way,” she mentioned.
