Posted on 02/16/2009 2:40:31 AM PST by Eleutheria5
An upstate TV exec who set up a channel promoting Muslims as peace-loving people was stressed about his failing business in the days before he allegedly chopped off his estranged wife's head, a friend of the couple said today.
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Hassan, who founded Bridges TV in 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes following 9/11, turned himself in to cops Thursday in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. Police later found his beheaded wife in the TV studios.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
OK. Joke.
Please don’t tell me she was executed Al-Quaida style.
I am totally dismayed an American citizen could do this to his own wife!
No jokes from me...
Just so disturbed that so many give a religion a pass...that thrives on hatred.
And to think Ted Haggard just went gay....didnt kill anybody
Search. Search.
An “educator” against islam stereotypes commits and act that further fuels said stereotypes. Irony defined?
From the Corner at NRO by Mark Steyn....
Headless body in gutless press [Mark Steyn]
Just asking, but are beheadings common in western New York? I used to spend a lot of time in that neck of the woods and I dont remember decapitation as a routine form of murder. Yet the killing of Aasiya Hassan seems to have elicited a very muted response.
When poor Mrs Hassans husband launched his TV network to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, he had no difficulty generating column inches, as far afield as The Columbus Dispatch, The Detroit Free Press, The San Jose Mercury News, Variety, NBC News, the Voice of America and the Canadian Press. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle put the couple on the front page under the headline Infant TV Network Unveils The Face Of Muslim News.
But, when Muzzammil Hassan kills his wife and the face of Muslim news is unveiled rather more literally, detached from her corpse at his TV studios, its all he can do to make the local press - page 26 of Newsday, plus The Buffalo News, and a very oddly angled piece in the usually gung-ho New York Post, Buffalo Beheading: Money Woe Spurred Slay.
Oh, really? He beheaded her for some goofy clause in the insurance policy? Not exactly:
An upstate TV exec who set up a channel promoting Muslims as peace-loving people was stressed about his failing business in the days before he allegedly chopped off his estranged wifes head, a friend of the couple said today.
Ah.
He was worried about the stations future, said Dr. Khalid Qazi, a friend of the couple and president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York, who last spoke to the Hassans a week ago...
Domestic violence is despicable, and Islam condones it in no way whatever, he said.
Murders are being committed in the US every day by people of all faiths.
Well, maybe. But for sheer news value youd think this one might stand out. Look at this picture. Thats the very definition of moderate Muslim. Look at the late Aasiya Hassan, beautifully coiffed, glossy-lipped. On countless occasions since 9/11, Ive found myself at lunch or dinner in New York, London, Washington, Paris or some other western city, sitting next to a modern Muslim woman like Mrs Hassan telling me how horrified she is at how hijabs and burqas, honor killings and genital mutilation, forced cousin marriages and the disproportionate number of Muslim wives in European battered womens shelters, how all these have come to define Muslim womanhood in the 21st century. Yet Aasiya Hassan ended up no differently - all because her husbands TV network had a cashflow problem?
The medias lack of curiosity is in marked contrast to their willingness to propagandize for the launch of Mr Hassans station. It also helps explain why the US newspaper business is dying.
And....
“Afghan diplomat Mohammed Fagirad charged in all-day wife beating”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186366/posts
Religion of Pieces alert.
Thanks Kozak for the STEYN additional analysis. Over the last few years I will take a story like this and goggle search...unfailingly the Moronic Media never sows up when their is a whiff of unPC Islamic travesty. It is obvious that the MOFO media is part of the Left’s plan to destroy Free America...
Its about time this made it in a NY newspaper.
Thanks for posting. I think Mark has the state of “The religion of Peace” pretty well laid out. At least to my satisfaction. Too many enablers, and not enough outrage at the constant reminder of exactly who these folks are, and what they are up to in the wrong country. Broad brush needed. 9-11 is not ancient history.
> Just asking, but are beheadings common in western New York?
Western NY contains the City of Lackawanna and Town of West Seneca. They border each other and Buffalo. They host a huge muslim population. A friend of mine (not a muslim) lives in Lackawanna. He told about 2 years ago of a similar incident a few streets over from where he lives and mentioned that these incidents were common in the community. Normally they just get listed as domestic violence incidents without the details that make for sensational headlines. I guess this one just slipped through because it was in Orchard Park, another Western New York community 2 or 3 miles from the main muslim population.
“Western NY contains the City of Lackawanna and Town of West Seneca. They border each other and Buffalo. They host a huge muslim population.”
Are they coming through from Canada?
The demographic changes throughout the country are astonishing. I lived in Buffalo and Fredonia two lifetimes ago, and the demos were far different when I was there.
> Are they coming through from Canada?
I don’t think so. I think they just come straight over from Yemen and various Northern African countries. They get brought over by relatives who are here already.
These are the people Obama and his administration want to have dialogue with. While we fight the hords of socialism at home the enemies abroad are getting stronger!
Has ANYONE seen this reported on TV yet?
It's like asking Roger Rabbit to not respond to "shave and a haircut".
nothing on tv yet - maybe fox tonite.
....Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome
killing, the beheading of a woman,..
...Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of
Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help
portray Muslims in a more positive light.
....”Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,”
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today....
http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/578644.html
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