David Belfield

David Belfield (also known as Hassan Abdulrahman or Hassan Tantai, aka Dawud Salahuddin) is an African-American convert to Islam who killed an Iranian critic of Ayatollah Khomeini and fled to Iran. Dawud Salahuddin was born David T. Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, NC on November 10, 1950. He is most famous for the alleged murder of Iranian dissident Ali Akbar Tabatabai in Bethesda in 1980. Salahuddin grew up in Bayshore, Long Island in a Baptist family, and attended Howard University for one semester. He has said that, as a child the, "most damage done to him," was "an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white." He became politicized in 1963, while watching news footage from Birmingham, Alabama showing a police chief...