The taint of Muslim stereotypes
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| Fri, 02-13-2009 - 3:56pm |
In 2004 Muzzammil Hassan founded a TV station to combat negative stereotyping of Muslims. In 2009 Muzzammil Hassan beheads his wife.
http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/578644.html
Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.
Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.
Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.
The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.
"Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.
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 ," Benz said.
Muzzammil Hassan was arraigned before Village Justice Deborah Chimes and sent to the Erie County Holding Center.

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**I have no tolerance for murder, and no tolerance for beheading, slavery, female genital mutilation, female degradation, and other things which are sadly more common in Muslim countries. I hope Muslim culture evolves over time. I know Christian culture has.**
Oh I see, it's "Christian" culture you speak of and not American culture. As I see it American culture has an incredible tolerance for murder, slavery-particularly sexual slavery http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm.
Female genital mutilation is so widely accepted in our country
Been there personally...and he wasn't Muslim.
Makes you wonder why Bush committed our country to saving such heinous people.
Why embrace a culture that produced Timothy McVeigh?
Precisely.
***Broadbrushing (as al qaeda followers do in thinking all americans are evil)
Nobody is saying that we should be tolerant of beheadings, for heaven's sakes... and you can bet his wife didn't think it was right, either (and that tv
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