Somali feminist under a fatwa tells for the first time of her ‘complicated’ affair with millionaire TV historian Niall Ferguson

Posted on May 2 2010 - 10:50am by sayfudiin Abdalle
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Bartamaha (Nairobi):-The mistress of multi-millionaire historian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson has revealed that she intends to start a family with him.
Speaking for the first time about their affair, Ayaan Hirsi Ali revealed that she is ‘enormously in love’ with the 45-year-old Harvard professor and hopes to become a mother ‘soon’.
Ms Hirsi Ali also confirmed that Mr Ferguson is now involved in divorce proceedings with his wife of 16 years, Susan Douglas, a former newspaper editor who is one of Tory leader David Cameron’s closest friends and a leading light in the Conservative party.
Mr Ferguson left her for the Somali-born feminist – a former Dutch MP who is in hiding under police protection after criticising Islam. They live together in the United States under police protection.

They met at a party for Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People In The World’ issue in New York in May, 2009.

The affair was revealed by The Mail on Sunday in February and since then the academic, who earns an estimated £5million a year for his books, TV programmes and role as a hedge-fund adviser, has lavished gifts on his lover, including spending £30,000 on her 40th birthday party in a five-star Manhattan hotel.
She spoke about their relationship for the first time in upmarket Dutch women’s magazine Libelle.
‘Recently I have found new love – Niall Ferguson,’ she wrote. ‘He is a British historian and TV presenter. It is a complicated love affair. I am enormously in love with him.

‘It is the best feeling in the world. I would love to become a mum soon. I have turned 40 and I hope it is still possible for me to have a baby.
‘But he is involved in divorce proceedings and there are children involved. We are also both travelling a lot for our jobs. We have to put in a lot of effort to make sure we see each other.
‘I am happier than ever. I feel so much better in my life after all the things I have gone through. ’
Ms Hirsi Ali fled the Netherlands in 2006 after writing the script for the controversial movie Submission, which criticised Islam

The film’s director, Theo van Gogh, was shot dead in a street in Amsterdam and a death threat against Ms Hirsi Ali was pinned to his chest.
She had claimed political asylum in Amsterdam after fleeing Somalia in 1992 and became a Dutch MP with a reputation for holding strident opinions.

Her attacks on Islam have caused a rift with her family,she said.
‘My life has become very complicated since I turned my back on religion.

‘My mum is begging me to return to Islam. She claims the Western world has stolen her daughter.’
Mr Ferguson is said to have cheated on his wife eight times during the past five years.

Ms Douglas is said to have been prepared to overlook his betrayals.
She was the editor of the Sunday Express and a senior executive at Vogue publishers Conde Nast before joining the PFD talent agency as a consultant.

In 2006 she suffered serious head injuries in a riding accident, and turned her attentions to her husband and their two sons, aged 14 and nine, and 13-year-old daughter.
Meanwhile Mr Ferguson was building his career as a historian, writing books such as The Ascent Of Money, which became a Channel 4 series, and Empire And Colossus, about the rise and fall of Britain and America as global powers.
He sits on the board of Right-wing think-tank the Centre for Policy Studies, and gives lectures to hedge-fund managers for up to £60,000 an hour.
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Source:-Daily Mail