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Please help improve the article or discuss these issues on the talk page. He was assassinated in Khalifa immigrated to the United States in , where he earned a Ph. D in biochemistry. He became a naturalized U. Khalifa worked as a science adviser for the Libyan government for about one year, after which he worked as a chemist for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, then became a senior chemist in Arizona's State Office of Chemistry in He founded the religious group called United Submitters International USI , a group which considers itself to be the true Islam, but prefers not to use the terms "Muslim" or "Islam," instead using the English equivalents of the Arabic: "Submitter" or "Submission.

Specific beliefs of the USI include the dedication of all worship practices to God alone, upholding the Qur'an alone, and rejecting the traditional hadith and sunnah as fabrications and lies attributed to Muhammad by his enemies. For many years he attended Masjid Tucson in Arizona. Starting in , Khalifa used computers to analyze the frequency of letters and words in the Qur'an.

In he claimed that he discovered an intricate numerical pattern in the text of the Qur'an involving the number 19 mentioned in chapter 74 of the Qur'an. Khalifa's research did not receive much attention in the West. The first comment appeared in Scientific American of September , p. Martin Gardner wrote of Khalifa's initial publication in the West: "It's an ingenious study of the Quran.