Iftikhar al-Mutasim
- In this Deltinian name, the first or paternal surname is al-Mutasim and the second or maternal family name is al-Husseini.
Mullah Iftikhar al-Mutasim | |
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افتخار المعتصم | |
 Al-Mutasim in 1960. | |
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| Born | Iftikhar Muhammad Amin al-Mutasim al-Husseini c. 1924 |
| Died | 18 February 1978 (aged 53–54) |
| Cause of death | Assassination (gunshot wounds) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Deltinian |
| Children | 6, including Sulayman |
| Denomination | Deltinian Islam |
Iftikhar Muhammad Amin al-Mutasim al-Husseini (Deltinian: افتخار محمد أمين المعتصم الحسيني; c. 1924 – 18 February 1978) was a Deltinian religious scholar and Islamic leader whose assassination in 1978 led to the start of the Deltinian Insurgency.
Biography
Iftikhar Muhammad Amin al-Mutasim al-Husseini was born sometime during 1924 in Denshire, then a city with a large Deltinian minority present. His father was an imam at a mosque in the city and al-Mutasim was raised as a practicing Deltinian Muslim.
In 1944, the Militarist Nationalist Front committed a massacre in the city of Denshire, killing around 25,000 ethnic and religious Deltinians. Al-Mutasim's father, mother, and two of his brothers were killed during the massacre. He survived after he escaped the city and fled to the countryside where he lived in hiding for two months.
In 1949, he, along with millions of other Deltinians across the Creeperian departments of Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz, were deported from the three historically "Deltinian departments" to the department of San Juan in the southernmost part of Creeperopolis. The deportations killed an estimated 2.1 million Deltinians. When he was deported, he served as a religious leader to those he was deported alongside.
He was settled in the city of El Rosario in 1950, and there, he was given the title of mullah as an influential Deltinian leader. During the 1960s, al-Mutasim engaged in negotiations with the Creeperian government to end the deportations and allow the Deltinians to return to Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz, however, his negotiations failed. He also attempted to negotiate better living conditions, but those attempts also failed. Some Deltinians disagreed with his efforts of negotiations with the Creeperian government, while others saw him as a leader attempting to improve the standard of living for the Deltinians people.
Overtime, his popularity as a Deltinian leader grew. His growing popularity and influence among the Deltinian community was seen as a threat by the Creeperian government, and so on 18 February 1978, the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) assassinated al-Mutasim during the middle of a sermon in a mosque. The assassination led to the beginning of riots across San Juan and eventually led to the beginning of the Deltinian Insurgency.
His son, Sulayman al-Mutasim, briefly became a leader of the Society of Deltinian Brothers until his assassination on 22 November 1978.
