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NPR Insists Buffalo Wife's Beheading by Muslim Outreach TV Founder Has No Islamic Overtones
newsbusters.org/blog ^ | February 27, 2011 | Tim Graham

Posted on 02/27/2011 2:52:55 PM PST by ColdOne

Almost the entire media skipped this chilling honor-killing verdict from Arizona on Tuesday, from Reuters: "An Arizona jury on Tuesday found an Iraqi immigrant guilty of second-degree murder for running down his daughter with a Jeep because she had become too Westernized." Faleh Almaleki killed his daughter Noor in October 2009 because she spurned his arranged marriage and was living with her boyfriend. Apparently, to report this is to be "Islamophobic."

NPR skipped Almaleki, but they noted the verdict in another horrific killing on Monday night's All Things Considered: Aasiya Hassan was beheaded by her husband Mozzamil in 2009 as the two headed a Buffalo television project designed to create better understanding about Muslims. NPR reporter Dina Temple-Raston's objective was to deny this crime was about Islam. Instead, she said, it was simply about domestic violence.

NPR anchor Robert Siegel tried to explain that "at the time, the media seized on the murder as an honor killing. That's a killing allowed in some Muslim societies when shame has been brought on a family. But NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports from Buffalo, the Hassan case is really about domestic violence and it forced an entire community to reckon with stereotypes."

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KEYWORDS: beheading; islam; religionofbeheadings
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To: ColdOne
Islam? Never heard of it. Sharia? Never heard of it. Jihad? Never heard of it. Honor killing? Never heard of it. 911? Never heard of it.

Domestic violence? That's what evil oppressor white American men do to poor innocent American women victims every day, and twice on Super Bowl Sunday!

Domestic violence by straight women? Never heard of it. Domestic violence by gay men? Never heard of it. Domestic violence by lesbians? Never heard of it.

May NPR rot in hell.

21 posted on 02/27/2011 4:32:51 PM PST by TChad
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To: ColdOne
It was presented here as domestic violence.. the fact he beheaded her alive did not seem to make much of an impact on the prosecutor ...The TV was full of nightly reminders about how much women are endangered by domestic violence

It was pathetically PC ...but then we are a liberal Dem area

22 posted on 02/27/2011 5:03:40 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: ColdOne

And remember, the beheading of Daniel Pearl was over some trivial disagreement.


23 posted on 02/27/2011 5:22:24 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: ColdOne
NPR Insists Buffalo Wife's Beheading by Muslim Outreach TV Founder Has No Islamic Overtones

You may not be able to fix stupid, but you can certainly defund it!

24 posted on 02/27/2011 11:17:50 PM PST by Publius6961 (Defund NPR! NOW! if not sooner.")
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