Psychiatric Defense Likely In NY Wife Beheading ( Muslim Honor Killing )

AP ^ | Sep 18, 2009

[george76]

A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.

Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is scheduled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan's attorney, who made his plans known during a pretrial conference Friday.

Muzzammil Hassan had been served with divorce papers a week before his wife's body was found stabbed and decapitated at the offices of Bridges TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, where the couple also lived.

The Pakistani-born Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims and provide programming for the growing Muslim-American population.

[Pearls Before Swine]

A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims ..

Yah, that helped me understand the stereotypes a lot better.

[Responsibility2nd]

Not guilty by reason of insanity Islamic religion.

[jessduntno]

"A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction."

Jon Lovitz voice;

"It was emotional distress...yeah, that's the ticket."

[Centaur]

Yeah, insanity...that's the ticket. They're not evil, just nuts! </sarc>

[ZGuy]

Second-degree murder??? That’s crazy. Obviously the wife wanted to die otherwise she wouldn’t have filed for divorce, thus this is clearly a case of suicide simply assisted by the honorable husband. Geesh, when will Americans ever learn?

[alloysteel]

“Too many Twinkies”

Obviously suffering from one of the more extreme sugar rushes in recorded history.

[Frank_2001]

“counter stereotypes of Muslims ..”

They aren’t stereotypes, they’re FACTS.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

By reason of Islamity.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Heads are gonna roll when this gets to court.

[rickmichaels]

...is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing...

Islam was behind the killing. Any other explanation is a deliberate distraction.

[aruanan]

Psychiatric Defense Likely In NY Wife Beheading ( Muslim Honor Killing )

Back in the early 1980's, a psychologist I knew told me that by clinical standards most Arabic Muslim men could be classed as insane.

[kromike]

It’s Bush’s fault.

[a02001]

“A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims ..”

“Yah, that helped me understand the stereotypes a lot better.”

You’re just being a typical guns and bible hugger.
As for me, I say — Off with his head!
;-)

[BuffaloJack]

Islam means Nutbar Whackhead in muzzie-speak.

[tbw2]

Then it classifies as the most common inherited (biologically or socially) mental illness. ObamaCare Jokes Obama Jokes

[Arrowhead1952]

The Pakistani-born Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims

Fine yob you did there hassans. Nothing to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims than to whack your wife's head off. Stupid is as stupid does.

[The Comedian]

they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims

The irony waves this event has generated are threatening the stability of the orbits of several of the outer planets.

[nj26]

Islam is the reason why his wife is no longer with us. Just like thousands of women in the Middle East, she has fallen victim to “honor killings” via the religion of death.

[Vehmgericht]

Where is the love? Why are people so judgmental? Don’t you understand that diversity is sometimes hard for the narrow minded to accept? Welcome to the world of multiculturalism.