Earlier photo of Aasiya Hassan(left) with
head still attached.
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
If a Mormon beheaded his wife it would be all over the news.
If a Mormon in charge of a program to help Mormons look better in the media beheaded his wife...sigh
>”Murders are being committed in the US every day by people of all faiths.”
So then, all faiths condone/endorse murder and/or human-sacrifice? That statement is duplicitous perversion of logic... What’s he’s going for is the old “You’re wrong, so I must be right” argument, alabit modified.
Too busy waiting for drew peterson to leave another cold body behind.
When it comes to islam, the mainstream media have their heads in the sand—still attached, for the moment.
I think it foolish to pay any attention to anything reported in the press or media.
“Domestic violence is despicable, and Islam condones it in no way whatever,”
Guess that depends on how one defines domestic and violence.
Bull Soup.
The Koran specifically condones wife-beating:
4.34 Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
Mark Hacking, a Mormon killed his wife and the national news was all over. Of course we didn’t know right away that he had killed her.
Ted Haggard, an evangelical, who most people had never heard of, turns out to be a fag and the media goes nuts. No one even died that time.
Very few "honor killings" by members of the "religion of peace and equality" do. And if they are, words like "Islam" and "Muslim" are never used.
Until this “protection” is named as the anti-muslim rhetoric that it is, it will never be undone.
How can anyone say that reporting these things is anti muslim when these perpetrators predominantly choose muslims as their targets?
If it is not a muslim, it is almost always someone helping muslims.
Amazing how two simple sentences can explain so much!
Earlier photo of Aasiya Hassan(left) with
head still attached.
Wow, I’m a news junkie and did NOT see this yet. Forget all that political shit. Our “progressive” domestic media wants western civilization flushed down the toilet. Here is one of the vaunted “Moderates” (of the highest of profiles, in all of the nice social circles with the Beautiful People) hacking the head off his wife, and where is the coverage? This is not an oversight, nor is it an attempt at “sensitivity”.
This is collusion.
Yeah right.
Smaking ones wife around and locking her in her room till she behaves is endorsed in the Koran. And if she still disobeys, lock her in her room till she dies.
Wife beating in Islam
Check out this disgusting video.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c9_1208288514
I have also not noticed an appropriate amount of coverage of the beheading of the Polish man who was working in Pakistan. That happened a week ago. Granted, I am not watching very much MSM or even Fox lately, but still I would have expected way more mention of that henious crime. There were articles about it here on FR of course.
This beheading in our own country should be story #1. But it is not of course. They will instead do fluff stories about “going green” and “saving the planet”.
Obviously, since the MSM did not do their homework, they do not know if the messiah is muslim or not, so, to be in the safe side they do not touch the dark side of the moon.
I hadn’t seen this story either!
what can the msm say? after all, they said not a word when the UN passed an international law declaring the disparagement of Islam an international crime. So how can they possibly honestly report on a disparaging truth now?
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