Catherine Heseltine
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Catherine Heseltine | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 47–48)[1] Chelsea, London, England |
| Spouses | Syed Hossain
(m. 1998; div. 2005)Muhammad Ali (m. 2010) |
Catherine Heseltine (born 1978) is a British activist. In 2010, she was elected as the CEO of Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, a Muslim pressure group that opposes Zionism and Islamophobia.[1]
Heseltine grew up in North London. She attended Westminster School and met her future husband, Syed Hossein, when they were in the sixth form. They married two years later while at university and she converted to Islam.[1][2] The marriage broke down and resulted in a divorce after seven years.[3][4]
Career
On GMTV, while discussing the controversy around comments made by Archbishop of Canterbury about shariah law and its implications on divorce, Heseltine said "I wanted the divorce, and it was a very simple process. It was actually a lot easier for me to get an Islamic divorce than the expensive, and somewhat time-consuming process through the English courts".[5] She had assumed the name Hossein until her divorce.[6]