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!
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
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