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Beheaded wife had “no authority” to divorce her alleged murderer
Canada Free Press ^ | 2/20/09 | Doug Hagmann

Posted on 02/20/2009 9:53:55 AM PST by Nachum

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To: Badeye

Here’s a good column on the restrained coverage:

The case was as grisly as they come: A wealthy television executive walked into a police station last Thursday to report that his wife was lying dead at the television station office where they worked in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. When police arrived there, they found the decapitated body of Aasiya Hassan, a 37-year-old mother of two who recently had filed for divorce. Police say she was beheaded by her 44-year-old husband, Muzzammil Hassan, whom they have charged with second-degree murder.

In a media climate that operates by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” such a gruesome murder could have been expected to make national headlines within hours. Instead, the story took nearly a week get any traction. And early reports about the beheading were oddly restrained, marked by a degree of detachment and disinterest rarely seen in the sensationalistic world of modern journalism.

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/colleencarrollcampbell/story/4DD9826F1A8658FC86257562000015F9?OpenDocument


21 posted on 02/20/2009 10:18:16 AM PST by rwa265 (Christ, My Cornerstone)
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To: garyb
The beheading is fact, the perp is alleged.

You never know, she may have just lost her head.
22 posted on 02/20/2009 10:20:05 AM PST by arderkrag (Liberty Walking (www.geocities.com/arderkrag))
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To: garyb
how come no edit on this forum?

Same reason there's no avatars on this forum.
23 posted on 02/20/2009 10:21:50 AM PST by arderkrag (Liberty Walking (www.geocities.com/arderkrag))
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To: garyb

With all the PC a$$-kissing of Muslims by the media, I’m surprised that they even admit to suspecting foul play.


24 posted on 02/20/2009 10:26:37 AM PST by Ignatz (%Ohhh! You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd....%)
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To: Nachum

I don’t care about Islamic culture. I only care about democratic American law.


25 posted on 02/20/2009 10:34:22 AM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: Nachum
Correction:

"If the West’s wholesale lack of understanding of fundamentalist moderate Islam"

Remember: This husband was teaching Americans about how moderate Islam is.

Though his wife might object.

Except she can't.

He chopped off her head.

That's "Moderate" Islam for you.

26 posted on 02/20/2009 10:41:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)
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To: Nachum

Alleged beheading? hahahahaha

Maybe somebody can go and check if her head is on her shoulders? It can’t be that hard.


27 posted on 02/20/2009 10:51:46 AM PST by SeminoleSoldier
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To: Vaquero
(do I really have to post this as ???)


Great graphic. American life has now become so wholesalely ludicrous that it is nearly immaterial to post a sarcasm tag anymore.

28 posted on 02/20/2009 10:51:49 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: HEM

I like it! Hopefully a prosecutor will look at that.


29 posted on 02/20/2009 10:53:05 AM PST by SeminoleSoldier
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To: Nachum

“No controlling legal authority” to divorce her husband under islamic law.


30 posted on 02/20/2009 11:46:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Mr. President, Why am I being punished with a bailout?)
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To: garyb
how come no edit on this forum?

It is not the way of our people.
31 posted on 02/20/2009 1:23:43 PM PST by festus (Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
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To: Nachum
Islamic Rage Boy Addresses Muslim TV Exec's Wife Beheading
32 posted on 02/20/2009 3:32:41 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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