Kamal Qureshi
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Kamal Hameed Qureshi is a Pakistani
politician
current living in Denmark. Born in Rawalpindi
, Pakistan
, he moved with his parents to Copenhagen
, Denmark
at the age of four.
After attending Tårnby High School Qureshi studied medicine
at the University of Copenhagen
, graduating as a physician
in 2000.
Qureshi is a member of the Socialist People's Party
and has been a member of the Danish parliament, the Folketing
, since 2001.
Kamal Qureshi is his party’s spokesperson on minority issues and human rights issues despite being a notoriously fundamentalist muslim.
Kamal Qureshi is, furthermore, a party representative in the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe).
He has contributed to various publications on multiculturalism and equal rights and is an active participant in the public debate in Denmark as well as a popular lecturer.
Throughout the years Kamal Qureshi has participated in humanitarian work, and been involved in association work. Among other things, he has been with a humanitarian organisation “Folkekirkens Nødhjælp” in Iraq, working as a doctor, doing the war.
He started the campaign “Room for diversity”, in 2004, as a protest against the Danish government’s view of humanity.
Two times, the national association for homosexuels, has given him the title: politician of the year, because of his many legislative proposals and happenings on the subject.
Qureshi is a disputed public figure. He has been both critizised and celebrated for distributing a sexual education book intended for school children. The CD-rom was made by the organization: sex and society in cooperation with the national board of health.
The publication included pornographic imagery and instructions on how to engage in sadomasochism, coprophilia and zoophilia among other things.http://www.psykeogsex.dk/sexstarz01.htmhttp://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/120426:Liv---Sjael--Seksualmoral-hoerer-privatlivet-til.
"Qureshi decided to make the CD-rom available to the public after the health ministry, which had commissioned the material for the country's teenagers, banned the final product because it contained references to bestiality and coprophilia, which it deemed "inappropriate""http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200402/s1050206.htm. He did this by putting it on his website. It caused a lively debate, in the Danish society, where many agreed and disagreed with his action.
Qureshi has been involved in a controversy regarding alleged fraud by illegal subletting of his apartment in Copenhagen http://www.180grader.dk/nyheder/SFs_Kamal_Qureshi_anmeldt_for_bedrageri.php. In the end the police did not find that any charges could be made.
Qureshi has been publicly accused of faking a racist attack on himself prior to the Danish general parliamentary election in 2001.
In 2008 a newspaper wrote, that Qureshi in his student days, on one occasion had cheated on an exam by submitting another student's paper in his own name http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/article974213.ece.
As a result of these public debates, the Socialist People's Party temporarily relieved Qureshi of all responsibilities in Parliament in 2008 http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2008/02/18/154758.htm.
Qureshi is no longer a member of the parliament, though still is the Socialist Party’s spokesman on human rights and minority issues.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
current living in Denmark. Born in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, he moved with his parents to Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
at the age of four.
After attending Tårnby High School Qureshi studied medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
, graduating as a physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
in 2000.
Qureshi is a member of the Socialist People's Party
Socialist People's Party (Denmark)
The Socialist People's Party is a green and socialist political party in Denmark.-1959–69:The SF was founded on 15 February 1959 by Aksel Larsen, a former leader of the Communist Party of Denmark and CIA agent. Larsen was removed from the ranks of the DKP for his criticism over the Soviet...
and has been a member of the Danish parliament, the Folketing
Folketing
The Folketing , is the national parliament of Denmark. The name literally means "People's thing"—that is, the people's governing assembly. It is located in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen....
, since 2001.
Kamal Qureshi is his party’s spokesperson on minority issues and human rights issues despite being a notoriously fundamentalist muslim.
Kamal Qureshi is, furthermore, a party representative in the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe).
He has contributed to various publications on multiculturalism and equal rights and is an active participant in the public debate in Denmark as well as a popular lecturer.
Throughout the years Kamal Qureshi has participated in humanitarian work, and been involved in association work. Among other things, he has been with a humanitarian organisation “Folkekirkens Nødhjælp” in Iraq, working as a doctor, doing the war.
He started the campaign “Room for diversity”, in 2004, as a protest against the Danish government’s view of humanity.
Two times, the national association for homosexuels, has given him the title: politician of the year, because of his many legislative proposals and happenings on the subject.
Qureshi is a disputed public figure. He has been both critizised and celebrated for distributing a sexual education book intended for school children. The CD-rom was made by the organization: sex and society in cooperation with the national board of health.
The publication included pornographic imagery and instructions on how to engage in sadomasochism, coprophilia and zoophilia among other things.http://www.psykeogsex.dk/sexstarz01.htmhttp://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/120426:Liv---Sjael--Seksualmoral-hoerer-privatlivet-til.
"Qureshi decided to make the CD-rom available to the public after the health ministry, which had commissioned the material for the country's teenagers, banned the final product because it contained references to bestiality and coprophilia, which it deemed "inappropriate""http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200402/s1050206.htm. He did this by putting it on his website. It caused a lively debate, in the Danish society, where many agreed and disagreed with his action.
Qureshi has been involved in a controversy regarding alleged fraud by illegal subletting of his apartment in Copenhagen http://www.180grader.dk/nyheder/SFs_Kamal_Qureshi_anmeldt_for_bedrageri.php. In the end the police did not find that any charges could be made.
Qureshi has been publicly accused of faking a racist attack on himself prior to the Danish general parliamentary election in 2001.
In 2008 a newspaper wrote, that Qureshi in his student days, on one occasion had cheated on an exam by submitting another student's paper in his own name http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/article974213.ece.
As a result of these public debates, the Socialist People's Party temporarily relieved Qureshi of all responsibilities in Parliament in 2008 http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2008/02/18/154758.htm.
Qureshi is no longer a member of the parliament, though still is the Socialist Party’s spokesman on human rights and minority issues.