Posted on 02/24/2012 8:12:31 AM PST by blam
Verizon Drops Muslim TV Channel Whose Owner Beheaded His General Manager
Jim Edwards
Febuary 24, 2012
Bridges TV anchor Samatha Azzar
Verizon will drop the Muslim cable channel Bridges TV on March 14, almost a year to the day after the channel's owner was sentenced to life in prison for beheading his wife, who was also the station's general manager.
The murder occurred at Bridges TV's studio in 2009, six days after Aasiya Hassan told her abusive husband Muzzammil she was divorcing him. Muzzammil Hassan, the channel's founder, then lured his wife to the studio where he stabbed her 40 times and hacked off her head with a pair of hunting knives.
Verizon's decision to drop the channel is unrelated to Hassan's crime. The company told Metro:
"This programming has been discontinued due to very low viewership and the continued effort of Verizon to offer our customers the most popular channels while keeping our rates reasonable."
Bridges TV news director and anchor Samantha Azzar told Metro:
"Without Verizon, we will cease to exist. We won't be able to stay on... There will be no voice for local Muslim Americans to cover stories that are important to them."
Bridges TV's advertisers included Ford and American Islamic College.
The Daily News once noted:
Muzzammil Hassan founded Bridge TV in 2004. The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11.
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“Without Verizon, we will cease to exist. We won’t be able to stay on... There will be no voice for local Muslim Americans to cover stories that are important to them.”
Boo - f’n- Hoo!
They should pick up a cannibalism channel... because all cultures and all religions are equal.
That’s Islamic Sho-Biz!!!!
“The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11.”...
That sure worked for this Gilligan!
The Islamic Gong Show is serious!
sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
Heads will roll!
“There will be no voice for local Muslim Americans”
You can be a Muslim or an American. It’s impossible to be both.
The wife who was later beheaded gave him the idea for the channel. Noting his last name and recalling the cartoon Ali Baba Bunny (Bugs Bunny), we remembered the phrase from it:
Hassan Chop!
“Muzzammil Hassan founded Bridge TV in 2004. The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11.]”
EPIC FAIL!
So if they had better ratings, they would keep the channel and sell it as a premium channel?
Try NPR news, honey. That's all they ever talk about.
Oh oh, Verizon is now on the ‘who survives and who dies list’.
I’d sure hate to be the guy who asks him for a raise.
Does this mean no more....
Fatwa Knows Best?
How I Murdered Your Mother?
Hajji Days?
Allah In The Family?
Have Jihad Will Travel?
Quran As Folk?
I’d suffer worse, believe me. This might help. Call them what I do. Folks are maybe tired of seeing me post it all the time but I find it works for me: “Worthless Saracen* bastards’’. *Saracen’’(’noun.) 1.A member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian border of the Roman Empire. 2.(later use) an Arab. 3. A Muslim.
Snort!
It might have actually accomplished that HAD HE NOT SLICED HIS WIFE'S HEAD OFF!!!
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