Three days ago in Buffalo, NY, Muzzammil Hassan sawed the head off his wife Aasiya Hassan — we’re going to say it — Islamofascist-style in a gift to the press that’s normally insatiable for this type of story. Ironically, Mr. Hassan is the founder of Bridges TV network, formed to improve the image of Muslim-Americans in the U.S. So where’s the story?
Conservative commentators knew there would be just token press, and they were proven right. If it were a Christian (or any non-media-protected group), it would have been all over television and print media. But, just three days out, and we see that not only does the poor wife no longer have a head, but the story has no legs.
Detractors will say there was plenty of coverage, citing the newspapers in which a story appears or the TV network where they heard the story, but that’s meaningless. What page? How many column inches? How much time on TV? Any followup? Was the Muslim style beheading downplayed?
So we ask you, our readers, to help us out by posting comments here, indicating where you did or did not see coverage, and providing any further details you can share. And also, if you know of any great articles with details on this lack of coverage, please feel to enter the links (don’t worry if your comment gets temporarily moderated if there are many links in it).
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We can’t criticize another culture when they commit murder?????? Are you on something? We do have a better culture, a 1000 times better. Lets hope it can survive the Obama years. Try him in a court of law and right to Dr Strangelove for a quick injection. I think timmytanker has OD’ed on Koolaid. Please seek some help!
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http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/581540.html
Updated: 02/17/09 07:54 AM
Possibility of ‘honor killing’ mulled in Orchard Park slaying
Estranged husband charged with murder
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“While Muslim leaders have urged against applying cultural stereotypes to the crime, advocates for women linked the killing to attitudes in Muslim societies.
“This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said Marcia Pappas, New York State president of the National Organization for Women.
She decried the scant national media attention paid to the story, which broke the same day as the commuter plane crash that killed 50 people in Clarence.
While domestic violence affects all cultures, Muslim women find it harder to break the silence about it because of a stigma, she said.
“Too many Muslim men are using their religious beliefs to justify violence against women,” she said.”
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So let’s see if I say I have a way of life where it is ok to kill you that would be ok because of course no one has any business criticizing me because of course there is the culture difference. No wonder the world is in trouble. Total complete lack of morality anymore.
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Dallas Morning News reported it on Feb 17th & 19th. They do bring up the point of Honor Killing.
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Lunacy and we saw nothing about this on our local news in Central Texas… nothing at all.
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