Naser Khader, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Naser Khader

Danish politician

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1963

Place of Birth: Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria

Profession: writer, politician, researcher, radio personality, interpreter

Nationality: Denmark, Syria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Social Profiles:

Show Famous Birthdays Today, World

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Naser Khader

  • Naser Khader (Arabic: ???? ???? Levantine pronunciation: ['n??s?er x?d?er]; born 1 July 1963) is a Danish–Syrian politician who is member of the Parliament of Denmark for the Conservative People's Party.
  • He was first elected to Parliament representing the Danish Social Liberal Party in 2001.
  • In 2007 he left this party to found New Alliance (later Liberal Alliance), whom he represented from 2007 until 5 January 2009.
  • A leading proponent of peaceful co-existence of democracy and Islam, he established a new movement, Moderate Muslims (later renamed Democratic Muslims), when the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began. In the national elections on 13 November 2007, Naser Khader's New Alliance party won five parliamentary seats.
  • After a tumultuous year, in which two MPs left the party, one was excluded from the parliamentary group, and the party was renamed to Liberal Alliance, Naser Khader too left the party.
  • Following a short period as an Independent Member of the Danish Parliament, Naser Khader joined the Conservative People's Party on 17 March 2009.
  • Khader lost his seat in the 2011 Danish parliamentary election, but regained it in the 2015 election.Khader co-founded an association of Islamism critics in 2008, with the aim to promote freedom of speech and inspire moderate Muslims worldwide.
  • Khader and the Conservative Party advocate a complete ban on the burqa as part of an integration initiative by the Conservatives' parliamentary group, describing it as "un-Danish" and "oppression against women".

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also