Muslim Wife Swap: TV Founder Beheads Wife
TO NEW YORK, where Muzzammil Hassan, founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, has confessed to beheading his wife, one (and a bit) Aasiya Hassan, say reports.
It’s bit like the head of the Catholic Church talking about love for all while nodding along with a Holocaust denier and sucking up to a gay hater.
Never mind the facts, did you see the stickers and promotional flyer?
Muzzammil Hassan has been charged with second-degree murder after police found the decapitated body of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, at the Bridges TV station in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, said Andrew Benz, Orchard Park’s police chief.
Hassan filed for divorce in January, and police reports tells of responses to several domestic violence calls at the couple’s home.
Interestingly, the beheading was not caught on camera and broadcast as infotainment on the new bulletins.
Had it been, Mr Hassan might have achieved his biggest TV hit to date and enabled non Muslims and Muslims alike to understand that when it comes to telly, anything goes so long as the punters stay tuned…
Invitation To A Beheading is on Living TV, right after the Jade Goody show.
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February 19th, 2009 at 11:16 am
June, looking at the story reported last week on the half a million or so children used as slave labour in West Germany following the Second World War, where:
‘work which had been performed at wartime forced labour camps simply shifted to West German children’s homes. Children worked for up to 12 hours a day in appalling conditions for negligible pay, assembling products for well-known companies such as Braun and Miele.’
it’s difficult to have much faith in the idea of moral progress.
The children’s homes were run by religious institutions; the Lutheran Church has apologised and offered to pay compensation, and the Catholic Church has apologised but is silent on compensation.
Oddly enough, the child slave labour system didn’t change until the students that every right wing commentator blames for our current lack of morals took to the streets in 1968…
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0218/1224241331302.html
February 19th, 2009 at 8:21 am
seriously the RC clergy as a whole is so morally bankrupt how they have the gall to stand and preach at their congregation is beyond me, ok there are some truly good people there too, BUT.
Sadly the closer people feel they are to their god and bask in reflected glory..but this is the same throughout all faiths and throughout history.
Of course women and children get placed in the role of chattel thus relieving the need for conscience searching.
Do you think there has been any moral decline since the days of Borgias and Medicis?
February 19th, 2009 at 12:19 am
June
The tricky bit is that they do indeed act, but the act is directed towards ensuring that these people will not be arrested and charged, nuch less sentenced.
If that doesn’t work then they may finally bite the bullet, but not very often. Cardinal Bernard Law, sacked because of his role in covering up most horrendous abuse, promptly got a plum job at the Vatican….
February 18th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Chenier
Possibly , BUT they have to been seen to act once a jail sentence has been awarded, and the Faithful are prone nowadays to be up in arms until they do, Hobsons really.
But agree they are a flock of ostriches
February 18th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
June
I think you are erring on the side of hopeless optimism when it comes to the Pope and the College of Cardinals policing sexual predators amongst the clergy; the Voice of the Faithful would certainly disagree with you:
‘We call on those leaders who failed to protect the well-being of our children by knowingly and secretly transferring predator priests from parish to parish without informing the laity to resign their current office or position of authority on or before June 30th, 2009.’
http://www.votf.org/Press/pressrelease/010709.html
February 18th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Amanda
Thank you for clarifying the legal position in NY state; I agree that so-called ‘honour’ killings have nothing to do with genuine religious beliefs and have everything to do with the way in which individuals in certain patriarchal cultures seek to control and demean women. Equally, the abuse of children by those with authority over them isn’t generated by religious belief, though the beliefs of the religion in question may ascribe such power to priests, rabbis and so on that the abusers are enabled by that power.
And when courageous people speak out they may find themselves on the wrong end of mob violence; there was an example of this last year in London…
http://www.thejc.com/articles/anti-abuse-rabbi-run-out-town
February 18th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
In addition it was a US citizen who made the initial report
February 18th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
The RC church has the Pope and the College of Cardinals to deal with priests who abuse sexually and morally, they do not misinterpret the Bible or the Church teaching, they are perverts and are treated as such by Law and are excommunicated when the law they are judged by find them guilty.
However in the UK so called ‘Honour killings’ are treated as criminal by the Law , why are they treated as ‘cultural’ by Islam, when they are carried out in the name of Islam?.
The culture they spring from is Islam, nothing more, nothing less.
The more Islam disassociates itself from such crime does it no favours, Sharia Law is an Islam practice, and ‘Honour killings’ come under its banner
February 18th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Ooooo ‘ Our country, our laws’ - love that notion. Alternatively, the US is rather fond of going to others’ “own country” and killing wives (and children as well as A.N.Other unfortunate hapless souls) with impunity. And then awaits thanks for bestowing ‘freedom’.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
1. I am disgusted to see this news post making light of a horrific situation
2. Mr. Hassan is only being charged with 2nd degree murder b/c in NY State you can only be charged with 1st degree murder if you fit a list of 13 specific regulations regarding the crime you committed (ie: you can be charged with 1st degree murder if you are NY cop, but not if you are a woman who was beheaded).
3. As a Muslim myself, I would like you to know that the Quran and Islam in no way condone honor killings. Honor killings are purely cultural and have come about because people refuse to educate themselves on what the Quran actually says. Just as in the same way Catholic priests molest little children because they don’t actually read what the Bible says.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Puzzles me also, Chenier. The police had had numerous phone calls and had to go to their home over the months re domestic violence taking place. They were aware of the violent side of him. He beheaded her in his office. If that isn’t premeditated murder then what is! They come to our country and are entitled to their religious beliefs; however, they are governed under our laws. If there is a conflict, then they have no right to live in our country. Our country, our laws — you have a problem with that then stay out! I srongly feel he should be charged with first degree murder so he can get the death penalty. Then, maybe the rest of his religious ‘ilk’ will get the message loud and clear - you don’t kill your wives or mistreat them in our country the same as you do in your own country.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
It’s the second degree murder charge that puzzles me; why not first degree murder?
Or are we back at the same old tired story trotted out every time a man kills his wife: domestic violence isn’t as bad as stranger violence, so it’s only second degree, not first degree murder…