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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 stated “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 stated. “We’re taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed [state]. It’s not a nation, got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing.
“The explosion of prosperity, in conclusion, and progress that constructed the West didn’t come from our tax cuts. It finally got here from our very particular tradition. This is the dear inheritance that America and Europe have in frequent.
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“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, writer and former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
In response, Hirsi Ali advised Fox News Digital Trump is speaking a essential fact.
“I don’t think it’s an important thing. I think it is the most important thing,” she stated. “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 U.S. 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 stated.
“The economy is very important. 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 huge Minnesota fraud scheme, Hirsi Ali stated, “I wholeheartedly agree with the president.”
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President Donald Trump addresses the viewers in the course of the annual assembly of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
“The president is right when he says Somalia hasn’t even made it into a nation,” she stated. “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.”
Further, Hirsi Ali stated 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 stated. “They tell everyone, ‘If you expose this, investigate it, object to it, stop it, you’re racist. You’re an Islamophobe. You are a bigot.
“If we carry on doing what we’re doing, getting large numbers of individuals from the Third World to return and set up themselves within the United States and European nations and rely on welfare advantages, that’s to take and take and by no means contribute, then we’re setting ourselves up not just for failure. We’re committing a cultural and nationwide and political suicide.”
To combat this, Hirsi Ali said European nations must follow the Trump administration’s example in sealing their borders. She said the U.S. and Europe must also address their broad welfare systems, which she said are “simply too costly.”
In Minnesota, Hirsi Ali advocated a hardline stance on the Somali immigrant population to assimilate into American culture.
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Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali attends a book presentation of “Refurbished you! Why Islam should change” April 20, 2015, in Berlin, Germany. (Christian Marquardt/Getty Images)
“We’ve bought to pressure them both to assimilate, or we have to present them that selection and say, ‘If you don’t want to assimilate into American society, then you will be denaturalized,’” she said.
“This is not identical to, ‘Oh yeah, it is one other day in politics. It’s existential.'”
Hirsi Ali called Trump’s Davos speech a “breakthrough” in getting European leaders to understand that defending Western civilization must be “precedence No. 1.”
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“JD Vance put it this manner: [It’s] not what are we preventing towards, however what are we preventing for? What are we preventing to protect? If you may’t reply that query, then I feel you’re misplaced. And the European leaders are misplaced. And I feel he is attempting to assist them discover their means,” she stated.
Peter Pinedo is a politics author for Fox News Digital.
