Posted on 02/15/2009 5:06:01 PM PST by goldstategop
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.
“Murders are being committed in the US every day by people of all faiths.”
Folks, ask NOW (National Organization of Women) why NOW covers up Moslem honor killings.
Why don’t Moslem honor killings of wives/daughters in the USA get any mention on the NOW website? Perhaps we should ask these people:
pat@nowworld.org
lesbian.rights@now.org
press@now.org
fieldorg@now.org
govtrel@now.org
ljacobs@nowldef.org
jgrayson@nowldef.org
now@now.org
nowfieldla@hotmail.com
lesb.rts@now.org
chapters@now.org
chapdev@now.org
yftf@now.org
youngfeminist@now.org
aajob@now.org
acctjob@now.org
memberjob@now.org
dirmailjob@now.org
fieldjob@now.org
volunteer@now.org
gala@now.org
yourname@nowworld.org
chapfield@now.org
nomcom@now.org
preuss@now.org
alabamanow@hotmail.com
anchorage.now@gmail.com
anchoragecan@gmail.com
matsucannow@gmail.com
alaskanow@gmail.com
evnowchapter@gmail.com
communications@canow.org
actnowpresident@yahoo.com
treasurer@flnow.org
vp@flnow.org
51statenow@gmail.com
washingtondcnow@gmail.com
info@judylevynow.org
jonesboronow@yahoo.com
info@gainesvillenow.org
pres@gainesvillenow.org
paypal@gainesvillenow.org
lisa@gainesvillenow.org
mail@psnow.org
now@jaxnow.org
chapterpresident@sandiegocentralnow.org
npbcnow@aol.com
info@sfvnow.org
sara_mana_now@yahoo.com
spalmnow@yahoo.com
slonow@slonet.org
soconow@excite.com
soconow@excite.com.or
westvolusianow@yahoo.com
moscownowchapter@yahoo.com
illinoisnow@aol.com
info@dupagenow.org
qcnow@mchsi.com
so_il_now@yahoo.com
illinoisnow@juno.com
trina_w@nowwichita.org
nowbluegrass@yahoo.com
mnnow@mnnow.org
tom@nowms.org
stacey@nowms.org
christina.massnow@gmail.com
info@bostonnow.org
nebraskanow@cox.net
omahanow@cox.net
southernnevadanow@gmail.com
pres@michnow.org
info@michnow.org
nhnow@nhnow.org
grandrapidsnow@gmail.com
now-nj@nownj.org
middlesex@nownj.org
info@nownys.org
mertf_info@nownj.org
morriscountynow@hotmail.com
nnjnow@nownj.org
president@raleighnow.org
passaic@nownj.org
eastendnow@aol.com
info@rochesternow.org
contact@nownyc.org
ekadar@feminist.org
internship@feminist.org
internshipla@feminist.org
president@oregonnow.org
panow@panow.org
beavervalleynow@hotmail.com
carolynatrinow@yahoo.com
info@westchesternow.org
philadelphianow@yahoo.com
president@utahnow.org
secretary@utahnow.org
vanowpresident@hotmail.com
cvillenow@avenue.org
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wvnow@rocketmail.com
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glnow@nowworld.org
cleavage@now.org
april29press@now.org
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field@now.org
jpayne@nowldef.org
political.director@now.org
comm@now.org
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foundation@now.org
health@nowfoundation.org
communications@now.org
march@now.org
pacs@now.org
health@now.org
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poldir@now.org
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......I’m sure these feminists have a perfectly logical excuse for “not commenting” when Moslems chop women’s heads off (TV executive in Buffalo, NY) and when Moslems shoot their 2 daughters to death in taxis (Yaser Abdel Said, Texas).
After listening to feminists holler for decades, I’d like an explanation why violence by Moslems is OK.
Islam is a fake religion, created by a perverted fraud.
It is evil incarnate.
“Murders are being committed in the US every day by people of all faiths.”
Interesting that the socialists want me to share punishment of their guilt even while being guiltless here and tending the other cheek: so be it if it rids them of this planet.
“Murders are being committed in the US every day by people of all faiths.”
That is true. And blacks comprise approximately 12-13% of the population yet commit 58% of all murders in the U.S. Another statistic that the media completely ignores or subverts.
There’s a reason that even Jessie Jackson said he felt more comfortable when being followed by a white teenager than a black teenager.
And why Richard Pryor after visiting the brothers in jail said, "Thank God we got penitentiaries."
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