Posted on 02/18/2009 5:55:55 AM PST by SJackson
| Beheading in Buffalo |
Last Thursday, a woman named Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, was founded decapitated in Orchard Park, New York, a village near Buffalo. Her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, was charged, rather oddly, with second-degree murder in the case. But the specter of someone who beheaded his wife being charged only with second-degree murder was the least of the oddities in this case: Aasiya Hassan’s body was found in the offices of the cable channel, Bridges TV. Aasiya Hassan was the inspiration for Bridges TV, and Muzzammil Hassan was its founder.
Muzzammil Hassan founded Bridges TV in 2004 to combat the negative perceptions of Muslims that he thought were dominating the mainstream media. According to a Reuters story at the time, Aasiya “came up with the idea in December 2001 while listening to the radio on a road trip.” Muzzammil Hassan explained: “Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims that offended her. She was seven months pregnant, and she thought she didn’t want her kids growing up in this environment.”
Bridges TV originally declared that its intention was to “fuse American culture with the values of Islam in a healthy, family-oriented way.” However, there were indications at the outset that it might not have been as moderate as many assumed. Bridges TV from the beginning had ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, and Islamicity.com, which retails rabid anti-Semitic literature. In 2006 Arab News reported that Hassan was trying to raise money for the network from Saudi investors.
And now comes the clearest, most harrowing indication of all that Bridges TV’s founder was not the moderate he appeared to be, but was rather a man who had imbibed deeply the traditional Islamic understanding that women are possessions of men, to be punished severely when they get out of line. Of course, this singular lesson of the beheading of Aasiya Hassan, who apparently had raised Muzzammil’s ire by filing for divorce, is the one that the mainstream media and the American Muslim community is doing its best to obscure. Immediately after the killing, Khalid J. Qazi of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) chapter of Western New York, declared: “There is no place for domestic violence in our religion — none. Islam would 100 percent condemn it.”
Unfortunately, all too few Muslim men seem to share Qazi’s view. The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has determined that over ninety percent of Pakistani wives have been struck, beaten, or abused sexually — for offenses on the order of cooking an unsatisfactory meal. Others were punished for failing to give birth to a male child. Dominating their women by violence is a prerogative Muslim men cling to tenaciously. In Spring 2005, when the East African nation of Chad tried to institute a new family law that would outlaw wife beating, Muslim clerics led resistance to the measure as un-Islamic.
Why do things like this happen?
Because Islamic clerics worldwide have spoken approvingly of wife-beating.
In 2004, an imam in Spain, Mohammed Kamal Mustafa, was found guilty of “inciting violence on the basis of gender” for his book Women in Islam, which discussed the methods and limits of administering “physical punishment” of women.
Muslim men bring this religiously sanctioned violence with them when they immigrate to the West, even to the United States. The prominent American Muslim leader Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has said that “in some cases a husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the moral infraction of his wife…The Koran is very clear on this issue.”
In 1984, Sheikh Yousef Qaradhawi, who is one of the most respected and influential Islamic clerics in the world, wrote: “If the husband senses that feelings of disobedience and rebelliousness are rising against him in his wife, he should try his best to rectify her attitude by kind words, gentle persuasion, and reasoning with her. If this is not helpful, he should sleep apart from her, trying to awaken her agreeable feminine nature so that serenity may be restored, and she may respond to him in a harmonious fashion. If this approach fails, it is permissible for him to beat her lightly with his hands, avoiding her face and other sensitive parts.”
Why do they say such things?
Because the permission to beat one’s wife is rooted in the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, and Islamic tradition.
The Qur’an says: “Men shall take full care of women with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God has [ordained to be] guarded. And as for those women whose ill-will you have reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave them alone in bed; then beat them…” (4:34)
The Islamic prophet Muhammad was once told that “women have become emboldened towards their husbands,” whereupon he “gave permission to beat them” (Sunan Abu Dawud, book 11, no. 2141). He was unhappy with the women who complained, not with their husbands who beat them.
Muhammad even struck his favorite wife, Aisha. One night, thinking she was asleep, he went out. Aisha surreptitiously followed him. When he found out what she had done, he hit her: “He struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” (Sahih Muslim, book 4, no. 2127).
Nothing in there about beheading, no. But Khalid J. Qazi was talking about domestic violence.
Why does this matter? Because as long as no one has the courage to call Muslim leaders like Qazi to account for statements like this, and ask them about the clear justifications for domestic violence that do appear in Islamic tradition, what can possibly be done to combat the prevalence of domestic violence in Islamic communities? Ignoring the Islamic justifications for domestic violence harms Muslim women. And ensures that there will be many more Aasiya Hassans, in the United States and around the world.
By their standards, rather moderate!
Now, stop and think what the Radicals are really like!
THAT is what I was going to say! By Sharia law, very moderate.
Very moderate.
I want to see him in prison - because of what awaits him when that sorry sack of sharia s**t bends over.
Heh!
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The manner of committing murder was decidedly muzlim.
Unfortunately, the circumstances leading up to it were not atypical of a violent marriage and a scorned spouse. I have no empathy whatsoever for that murderer, but it is not an uncommon story: she filed for divorce on 2/6, obtained a restraining order, and was the victim of domestic abuse previously.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/new.york.beheading/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
After all, it was HIS wife and he can do what he wishes with her. It's allah's will that she die a horrible death usually meted out to infidels.
That sound of crickets chirping is coming from the offices of the NOW Gang.
RE: "By their standards, rather moderate! Now, stop and think what the Radicals are really like!"
That's a good point.
He didn't dismember her (hands, feet, arms, legs), gouge her eyes out, or anything like that while she was still alive. He just subdued her and decapitated her. That's moderate.. compared to radical Muslims.
The fault doesn’t lie primarily with Muslims.
It lies with our journalistic culture. CAIR and other radical groups know full well that all they have to do is create a “moderate” straw man. Send out a spokesman, a representative, a member of the community to declare himself a “moderate”. Voila! The media will henceforth seek him out for his opinion when “controversial” issues arise (like the Muhammed cartoons).
The duped journalists never seek any confirmation of his moderate-ness. And, without fail, they overlook every instance in which it turns out their guy was funding terrorists, or taking on 4 wives, or beating his daughter, or beheading his wife. Nor do they ever notice that none of these moderates EVER goes so far as to condemn outrageous Muslim behavior or even 12 guys seeking to blow up airplanes. The journalist gets gobbldeegook speak about “religion of peace” and “moderation” and a scolding about how American better not start race profiling Muslims. And he never notices that none of these guys ever condemns terrorism.
Justice is best carried out whenever possible by the intended victim against the criminal.
Muzzammil Hassan now gets to spread Mohammed’s lethal message in one of the American madrasses.
This still will not penetrate the impenatrable egos of the white liberals.
What’s the difference between a “moderate” Muslim and a regular Muslim?
The “moderate” Muslim sharpens his blade.
Had she gotten a restraining order, and a gun, she would be alive today, and he probably would be alive too.
Had a coward like him known she was armed, he would have kept his distance.
If not, he would be dead, so either way, she (and we) would have been better off.
I was very curious about why this murder is only second degree, also. Strange, to say the least. The cruelty of the act itself seeming would require first degree, even if it was in the heat of passion.
Hubby just said, "You know what it will probably take? --Some Hollywood actress to marry a Muslim and have it happen to her--then they MIGHT notice...sad."
Off with his head....
"Hate Crimes" also bother me....A CRIME IS A CRIME, and I'm no less of a victim because I don't fit into a minority group.
Sheesh.
....;-)..... BOTH of them
In every culture you can find men who abuse women and even kill them for resisting sexual control. There’s a famous ex-cop in America, who is under suspicion of having murdered two wives for losing interest in him. But in most cultures it isn’t called “honor killing,” and in no other significant culture is it sanctioned by the religious establishment, as it is in Islam.
I want to know why it is Second Degree murder? Anyone with an idea, it just seems so strange and dismissive of the woman, taking her head off was just “second rate”. I don’t understand.
That's true, he's no infidels to his credit.
Don't ask me, I'm still trying to figure out how, in the Seattle Jewish Center case, 5 women shot, 1 killed, how the jury hung on all charges. Though all the charges were dismissed, I believe in "exit polls" they agreed on 1st degree murder, that would have been not guilty. Maybe it's a matter of lowered expectations. Muslim perps in both cases, killing Jews, killing female family members. It's just what they do. If that's even remotely true, CAIR has something to howl about, but they won't.
My mistake, it was not guilty on one of the 1st degree attempted murder charges they agreed on, hung on everything else.
Unfortunately in NYS it takes months to obtain a permit to buy a gun. So even if she figured out she needed one when she filed for divorce, the paperwork would hardly have landed on some bureaucrat’s desk by the time she was murdered.
He says that although this punishment is somewhat "harsh," and could disrupt the smooth running of the house by making more work for the remaining three wives, it is completely within Sharia Law.
He and our beloved POTUS campaigned vigorously all over Kenya for the installation of Sharia Law in autonomous, Kosovo-like, breakaway Muslim Provinces. So, what's your complaint?
Unless the restaining order was written on a steel plate wrapped around her neck, I think she still would be dead. I'm sure the blade would have cut right through a paper one.
I don’t know. See post 24/25, similar thing. Maybe the prosecutors, like the jurors, assume this is an ingrained cultural thing, second nature so to speak. Which shouldn’t matter. And that explanation contains a great deal of sarcasm, but I fear a grain of truth. We seem to be lowering standards.
Apparently, in New York State, the charge of First Degree Murder is reserved for the murder of law enforcement officers.
Just forwarding what I heard.
Nice 18 inch side by side 20 gauge double barrel shotgun, (light, easy to handle, moderate recoil and a good decorator can repair the damage to the house for less than $12,000) and she would be alive today.
A permit is mandatory in NYS for a handgun.
A permit is not needed for a shotgun or rifle except for those who live in cetain metropolitan areas, including NYC.
I am not sure if the Buffalo area in included in there.
Know what you mean about a handgun permit in NY. Of course, that cuts down on gun crime so much.
Think, for a person, who would in all probability be untrained as she was, a “twice-barrelled shoot-gun” would have been better.
Here's what's odd to me about this story. It has been on the news for some days now, but here is the FIRST article I've seen which tells us WHERE this monstrosity lives.
It reminds me of those news reports on politicians going to jail for corruption. If it's a Republican, they tell you ten times in every article. If it's a Democrat, you can only guess by the fact that they DON'T tell you.
So, are we to conclude that Buffalo is now a media-reputation-protected city? When did this start? It used to be the other way around, if I remember...
Oh, but then maybe it's not Buffalo they're protecting, maybe it's Muslims! Now, I think I get it...? ;-)
NYS also has a duty-to-retreat law on the books.
NYS protects the perps, not their victims.
That says it all.
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