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Mehdi Hasan
Hasan was born on 10 July 1979[1][2] in Swindon, Wiltshire, in South West England to Shia Muslim parents from Hyderabad in Telangana, Southern India,[3][4][5] his mother a doctor and his father an engineer. Hasan grew up in Harrow, an area of outer North West London.[6][7]
2012–2020: Al Jazeera and The Intercept
In 2013, Hasan took part in a debate at the Oxford Union to consider whether Islam is a peaceful religion. Hasan, who is a Twelver Shia Muslim, vouched for Islam as a religion of peace, citing political and cultural reasons for violence in Muslim majority countries, as opposed to holding the religion of Islam responsible. In the vote on the motion, the house affirmed with Hasan and the other proposers that Islam is a religion of peace with 286 votes in favor and 168 votes against.[20] In March 2015, Hasan appeared in a Guardian opinion video on UK immigration.[21]
Islamic faith
During a sermon delivered in 2009, Hasan made remarks about "the kuffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran." Quoting a verse of the Quran, Hasan used the term "cattle" to describe non-believers and called them "incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices."[47][48][49]
Personal life
Hasan is married. He and his wife have two daughters.[43] He became a naturalized citizen of the United States on October 9, 2020.[74]
In 2013, Hasan took part in a debate at the Oxford Union to consider whether Islam is a peaceful religion. Hasan, who is a Twelver Shia Muslim, vouched for Islam as a religion of peace, citing political and cultural reasons for violence in Muslim majority countries, as opposed to holding the religion of Islam responsible. In the vote on the motion, the house affirmed with Hasan and the other proposers that Islam is a religion of peace with 286 votes in favor and 168 votes against.[20] In March 2015, Hasan appeared in a Guardian opinion video on UK immigration.[21]
Islamic faith
During a sermon delivered in 2009, Hasan made remarks about "the kuffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran." Quoting a verse of the Quran, Hasan used the term "cattle" to describe non-believers and called them "incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices."[47][48][49]
Personal life
Hasan is married. He and his wife have two daughters.[43] He became a naturalized citizen of the United States on October 9, 2020.[74]
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The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, known as the Twelve Imams, and their belief that the last Imam, Imam al-Mahdi, lives in occultation (ghayba) and will reappear as "the awaited Mahdi" (al-Mahdi al-muntazar) alongside the awaited Nabi Isa, Jesus, The Messiah (Al-Masih) son of Bibi Mariam (The Virgin Mary), in order to restore justice and peace.
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