Muzzammil Hassan, A Pakistani-American businessman and founder and CEO of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Bridges TV which launched in 2004 with a mission to show Muslims in a more positive light, was charged after reporting the death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, on Thursday night.
After Hassan, 44, told police his wife was at the Bridges TV offices, in the village of Orchard Park, they found her body there, beheaded, The Buffalo News reported. Authorities said Aasiya Hassan and had an order of protection mandating that he leave their home as of February 6. He was being held in a county detention center charged with second-degree murder. He had two children, 4 and 6, with his wife. He had two other children, 17 and 18, from his previous marriage.
“There had been problems before and there had been prior incidents of physical abuse,” Corey Hogan, whose law firm Hogan Willig represented Aasiya Hassan in the divorce proceeding, told the newspaper.
The Buffalo News runs this headline on the story: “Muslim influence speculated in slaying.” They say this:
The gruesome death of Orchard Park resident Aasiya Zubair Hassan— who was found decapitated—and the arrest of her estranged husband are drawing widespread attention, as speculation roils about the role that the couple’s religion may have played. While Muslim leaders have urged against applying cultural stereotypes to the crime, advocates for women linked the killing to attitudes in Muslim societies.
“This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said Marcia Pappas, New York State president of the National Organization for Women.
Nadia Shahram, a matrimonial lawyer in Williamsville, said that some Muslim men consider divorce a dishonor on their family.
Marcia Pappas and the author of the above article, Fred O. Williams, should be fired for spreading this crap. First, beheadings have nothing to do with Islam. Second, the man has not been found guilty in a court of law. The sick fuck who did this should be caught and punished, but in no way does this reflect on Muslims or on the Islamic religion. To make the leap from this sick fuck to “muslim influence” is exactly the kind of hate-mongering that went on immediately after 9/11. To write an article that talks about “honor killings” and quotes Pappas without any concrete information about Hassan’s guilt or his beliefs and values is irresponsible. Report the facts, not some half-baked ideas about how “muslim influence.”
Are you joking? It damn well does have to do with Islam. They are doing honor killings now and they also do beheadings. They particularly like killing Jews, such as the targets in Mumbai. In fact, it was irresponsible of some stories NOT to mention it. Also, it is not exactly rocket science to know when a guy cut his wife’s head off – the “alleged” is a bit absurd in some cases (not all) where it is patently obvious what happened.
Where is the hate mongering? Have Islamic people been beaten or killed, like they are daily on the streets of European cities? Are they arrested for making offensive comments about killing all jews? No, you are arrested (in Denmark or Canada) for pointing it out.
All the hate mongering I have seen has been from Islam.
Kurt took the words out of my mouth.
I made an error – it is not Muslims being beaten and killed for being muslim in Europe, it is non-muslims (especially jews, homosexuals, and others considered death worthy by them) being beaten and killed.
Steyn says it well:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODZhMTg4NGJjNjBmMGE1NTYyN2NiNGM2MzZlY2QwYWY=
Show me the hate-mongering. Where was it?
I remember Bush saying that Islam was a religion of peace while the remains of the Twin Towers were still smoldering as a result of militant Islamists proving to us that Islam isn’t a religion of peace. There’s no historical proof at all that Islam is a religion of peace. Every single time some militant Islamist commits a terrorist act, terror-front groups like CAIR warn us all about a potential “anti-Muslim backlash,” but I never see it. What I do see is a lot of hand-wringing about potential hate-crime epidemics that don’t materialize.
Somehow, everyone who isn’t Muslim knows for sure that there’s nothing wrong with Islam; that it doesn’t promote violence or death. I myself am not as conversant with Islam, so I don’t have that certainty. What I do have is the knowledge that the vast majority of terror attacks committed in the last few decades were perpetrated in the name of Allah. And while Theo Van Gogh is stabbed to death by a militant Islamist while riding his bike in Amsterdam, and militant Muslims plotted to murder soldiers at Fort Dix in the U.S., and several innocent people around the world are killed in riots sparked by Danish cartoons of Islam, the big concern is about anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Fuck that. I am not going to play ball.
Militant Islamists have been known to cut off people’s heads. Deal. The Steyn article Kurt quoted tells us that under Islamic law, beheadings are legal in cases of adultery. Daniel Pearl’s parents would be pretty surprised to hear that beheadings don’t have anything to do with Islam, seeing that he had his head sawn off by Islamic militants ululating to the tune of Allahu Akbar.
There’s at least as much proof of “Muslim influence” in this story than there is the idea that Islam had nothing to do with it. I personally would be embarrassed to express that level of certainty without full knowledge of the facts.
Well, of course I don’t feel embarassed. Just as the Jewish Defense League and the terrorist actions of some Jewish groups in Israel in the 1940s doesn’t speak for me or all Jews or the Jewish religion, the militants, terrorists and other sick fucks who do horrible things to people in the name of Islam do not speak for all Muslims. Some do crimes in the name of their religion, but that doesn’t mean the religion is a base of support for these actions. Of this, I am certain and I feel no embarassment about it.
Just so.
And we don’t know for sure that the decapitator mentioned in this peace wasn’t using Islam as his base of support for what he did. Firing the reporter for bringing up Islam when a Muslim beheads his wife doesn’t seem to me to be the way to getting to the center of the truth.