Posted on 02/14/2009 6:06:01 PM PST by fiodora
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.
(More from Michelle Malkin, and Ed Driscoll)
02/14 08:22 PM
Pretty girl,is he still alive?
It certainly should have been a bigger story, but the plane crash in Clarence drowned out all other local news, at least for the local media.
But the national media should be all over this.
Where are the women’s groups, the feminists? As we’ve seen before in the Clinton years, they don’t care about actual individual women, just about political influence.
“Steyn must be reading my posts:”
I bet he is...
And you are 100% correct:
“This story will be buried faster than a dog’s bone.”
Yes, and he was just charged with 2nd degree murder.
Another beheading slaughter ignored by NOW, MSM, DOJ and Homeland Security.
NOW, MSM, DOJ and Homeland Security (in unison, singing):
"Nothing to see here. It was an accident; she must have fallen.
And she deserved it like her clitorectomy.
Now move along."
I don’t think she lost her head because of financial problems. I think she died because she dared to offend Islam!
Indeed.
This is the kind of thing I feel like shouting from the rooftops, or videotaping (in order to get the right pictures) and running on TV as a PSA for months at a time. But no one would run it.
Thanks for posting. Hooray Mark Steyn! The “media” will probably write several articles about you for writing such a hate-filled article. /sarcasm
Chill out folks, all MSM reporters are busy tracking David Duke and the Neo-Nazi threat to American Democracy. They can’t be in all places at once!
Thanks for the tip, however, in the “search” options when you write “beheadings”
It only shows: “Polish Hostage Allegedly Beheaded in Video.”
Allegedly, BridgesTVdotcom has not updated its website...
Chill out folks, all MSM reporters are busy tracking David Duke and the Neo-Nazi threat to American Democracy. They can’t be in all places at once!
Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
“She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February],” Benz said.
A police note stuck to the door five hours before Aasiya’s body was found asked her to contact cops.
Nobody at the Orchard Park Police Department today could explain why officers wanted to speak to her.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02142009/news/regionalnews/buffalo_beheading_155151.htm
"... nothing to see here folks, just a routine beheading in Buffalo..."
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