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 don’t 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 Hassan’s 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, it’s 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 wife’s head, a friend of the couple said today.
Ah.
“He was worried about the station’s 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 you’d think this one might stand out. Look at this picture. That’s the very definition of “moderate Muslim”. Look at the late Aasiya Hassan, beautifully coiffed, glossy-lipped. On countless occasions since 9/11, I’ve 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 women’s shelters, how all these have come to define Muslim womanhood in the 21st century. Yet Aasiya Hassan ended up no differently - all because her husband’s TV network had a cashflow problem?
The media’s lack of curiosity is in marked contrast to their willingness to propagandize for the launch of Mr Hassan’s station. It also helps explain why the US newspaper business is dying.
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...
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.
The murder occurred the same day as the plane crash. Plane crash trumped beheading. There was just a brief mention of it on the news right after it happened.
Big article on her life in today’s paper (Buffalo News. It was his third wife-the first 2 dumped him for being an abuser. He found her in Pakistan. I guess the abuse was going on for years and she finally had enough.