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).
