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Psychiatric Defense Likely In NY Wife Beheading ( Muslim Honor Killing )
AP ^
| Sep 18, 2009
Posted on 09/19/2009 9:07:48 AM PDT by george76
A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.
Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is scheduled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan's attorney, who made his plans known during a pretrial conference Friday.
Muzzammil Hassan had been served with divorce papers a week before his wife's body was found stabbed and decapitated at the offices of Bridges TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, where the couple also lived.
The Pakistani-born Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims and provide programming for the growing Muslim-American population.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aasiyahassan; behead; beheaded; beheading; bridges; bridgestv; divorce; hassan; honorkilling; islam; mhmmdnsm09192009; multiculturalism; muslim; muslims; muslimwomen; muzzammil; muzzammilhassan; rop; trop
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:07:48 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims ..Yah, that helped me understand the stereotypes a lot better.
To: george76
Not guilty by reason of insanity Islamic religion.
To: Pearls Before Swine
"A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction."
Jon Lovitz voice;
"It was emotional distress...yeah, that's the ticket."
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:12:15 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it." - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL)
To: george76
Yeah, insanity...that's the ticket. They're not evil, just nuts! </sarc>
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:12:37 AM PDT
by
Centaur
(Never practice moderation to excess.)
To: george76
Second-degree murder??? That’s crazy. Obviously the wife wanted to die otherwise she wouldn’t have filed for divorce, thus this is clearly a case of suicide simply assisted by the honorable husband. Geesh, when will Americans ever learn?
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:14:53 AM PDT
by
ZGuy
To: Responsibility2nd
“Too many Twinkies”
Obviously suffering from one of the more extreme sugar rushes in recorded history.
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:15:37 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
“counter stereotypes of Muslims ..”
They aren’t stereotypes, they’re FACTS.
To: george76
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:18:21 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
To: george76
Heads are gonna roll when this gets to court.
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:18:31 AM PDT
by
southernnorthcarolina
(Now with ConstructionCam! Click on my name and follow the progress.)
To: george76
...is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing... Islam was behind the killing. Any other explanation is a deliberate distraction.
To: rickmichaels
Psychiatric Defense Likely In NY Wife Beheading ( Muslim Honor Killing )
Back in the early 1980's, a psychologist I knew told me that by clinical standards most Arabic Muslim men could be classed as insane.
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:21:42 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: george76
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:24:08 AM PDT
by
kromike
To: Pearls Before Swine
“A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims ..”
“Yah, that helped me understand the stereotypes a lot better.”
You’re just being a typical guns and bible hugger.
As for me, I say — Off with his head!
;-)
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posted on
09/19/2009 9:41:10 AM PDT
by
a02001
(Help the third world poor one person at a time- www.kiva.org)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Islam means Nutbar Whackhead in muzzie-speak.
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posted on
09/19/2009 10:05:59 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
To: aruanan
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posted on
09/19/2009 10:16:43 AM PDT
by
tbw2
(Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
To: george76
The Pakistani-born Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims Fine yob you did there hassans. Nothing to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims than to whack your wife's head off. Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
09/19/2009 10:22:48 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO [the LIAR] has #1 spot in his sights.)
To: george76
they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims The irony waves this event has generated are threatening the stability of the orbits of several of the outer planets.
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posted on
09/19/2009 10:34:28 AM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: george76
Islam is the reason why his wife is no longer with us. Just like thousands of women in the Middle East, she has fallen victim to “honor killings” via the religion of death.
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posted on
09/19/2009 10:48:11 AM PDT
by
nj26
(Say NO to Socialism! Government is NOT the Answer.)
To: The Comedian
Where is the love? Why are people so judgmental? Don’t you understand that diversity is sometimes hard for the narrow minded to accept? Welcome to the world of multiculturalism.
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