Human rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali backed President Donald Trump, who essentially told Europe to “wake up” about its history and culture.
The president ruffled some feathers in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he delivered a warning about the loss of Western civilization in the face of foreign cultures. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali concurred with his remarks, saying, “Trump is right” and that his speech was a “breakthrough” in getting a message to European leaders.
“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,” Trump told world leaders gathered at the Switzerland summit. “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 built the West did not come from our tax cuts. It ultimately came from our very special culture. This is the precious inheritance that America and Europe have in common,” he continued.
“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,” Trump said.
Europeans can stomp their feet and complain about President Trump all they want.
But the truth is, Europe needs tough love—not because we want them to fail, but because we want them to survive.
Mass migration is an existential threat to Western Civilization. It must end. pic.twitter.com/urKob38ptT
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) January 21, 2026
“I don’t think it’s an important thing. I think it is the most important thing,” Hirsi Ali told Fox News Digital. “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.’”
The 56-year-old, who fled Somalia, where she was born, to escape a forced marriage, has been a vocal critic of Islam while advocating for women’s rights.
“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 said.
“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,” she added.
Hirsi Ali said, “I wholeheartedly agree with the president,” when asked about his criticism of Somali involvement in the scandalous fraud scheme uncovered in Minnesota.
“The president is right when he says Somalia hasn’t even made it into a nation,” she said. “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.”
She noted how the Minnesota scandal reveals 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 said. “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 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,” Hirsi Ali warned. “We’re committing a cultural and national and political suicide.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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