Khalid siddiqui biography

Kalim Siddiqui, Ph.D. (15 September - 18 April ) was a PakistaniBritish writer and Islamicactivist. He gained notability for his controversial support of the fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, which called for the assassination of British author Sir Salman Rushdie amidst the Satanic Verses controversy.^[1][2][3]

Early life

Siddiqui was born in the village of Dondi Lohara, CP, British India on 15 September He became increasing involved in politics as a teenager, when during a small demonstration close to his home town a bullet fired by a British soldier barely missed him, killing the youth behind him.^[4] After the creation of the state of Pakistan he briefly joined the Khilafat Movement in Karachi and became the editor of its newspaper, The Independent Leader.

Along with other members of the movement, he moved to London in the early s. In the mid s he put himself through college and university, taking a Khalid Siddiqui - Biography - IMDb QYJA