Hirsi Magan Isse

Hirsi Magan Isse (* 1935, † August 19 2008 in London) was a Somali academics, former guerrilla leader in the Somali Salvation Democratic Front against Siad Barre and father of Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali. After living in various countries he last lived in exile in London.

Life

Hirsi Magan Isse was born as one of nine children of Magan Isse Guleid (1845-1945) in Somalia and is a member of the Majerteen Darod clan. In the 1960s, he studied in Italy and in the United States linguistics and anthropology. In Somalia, he worked as a teacher and taught in a literacy course Asha know that his second wife and, inter alia, Mother of daughter born in 1969, Ayaan was.

Hirsi Magan Isse was a devout Muslim, but also had modern political reform ideas for his country and refused about the circumcision of his daughters. He rejected the 1969 rise to power authoritarian government under Siad Barre. As a linguist, he was a proponent of Osmaniya script for the Somali language, while Siad Barre preferred the Latin alphabet. In addition, he was descended from a branch of the Darod clan, which was traditionally more powerful than that Barres. For these reasons, Magan Isse was seen by the government as a threat and imprisoned in 1972. In 1976 he managed to escape from prison, after which he moved with his family to Saudi Arabia and later to Ethiopia and 1980 to Nairobi ( Kenya). While he left the family of his second wife in Kenya, he was active in the 1980s as a guerrilla leader in the opposition Somali Salvation Democratic Front, which operated with the support of Ethiopia in the Ethiopian- Somali border.

Later Magan Isse married a third wife, and finally returned to his first wife, from whom he had divorced shortly after his second marriage.

Swell

• New York Times: Daughter of the Enlightenment
• Economist.com: Dark secrets

• Politicians (Somalia)
• Born in 1935
• Died in 2008
• Man