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NY Wife Beheading Blasted as 'Honor Killing'

Divorce linked to gruesome murder

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 18, 2009 4:36 AM CST
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(Newser) – The gruesome beheading of a wife in upstate New York by her Muslim husband has been blasted as a retaliatory "honor killing" against a spouse seeking divorce, reports the Buffalo News. “This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said the president of the state's National Organization for Women.

Mussammil Hassan, founder of a US Muslim TV network, has confessed to cutting off his wife's head last week, according to law enforcement authorities. Hassan's wife filed for divorce earlier this month and obtained an order of protection barring her husband from their home. A New York matrimonial attorney said some Muslims consider divorce a dishonor.

Muzzammil Hassan, and his wife, Aasiya, pose in the offices of Bridges TV in upstate New York. Hassan has confessed to beheading his wife in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.
Muzzammil Hassan, and his wife, Aasiya, pose in the offices of Bridges TV in upstate New York. Hassan has confessed to beheading his wife in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.   (AP Photo/Bridges TV)
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Too many Muslim men are using their religious beliefs to justify violence against women. - Marcia Pappas, New York president of the National Organization for Women

Too many Muslim men are using their religious beliefs to justify violence against women. - Marcia Pappas, New York president of the National Organization for Women

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Guest
Oct 20, 2009 5:15 AM CDT
That sentament will be tested. It has been prophesied that women will control Western democracies. You may be right. The women may be better off. Or at least they will seem to be.
Guest
Oct 20, 2009 5:08 AM CDT
There is a saying...Satan has his ministers. They are sincere but they are sincerely wrong. Their doctrine separates mankind from a loving God and destroyes mankind. Military conquest always follows false religion. Flesh and blood human leaders forced populations to worship them as god. If you did not comply you were viewed as an enemy of the State and were killed. Some religious rites involved canabalism. Someone always dies with false religion. Persons who live by the truth and are free do not comply with State imposed religion and are killed. That is where we get martyrs. That is where we get the storie of Shadrak, Meshak and Abednigo. They defied the state mandate to participate in false religious practice. The God who created Heaven and Earth protected them. As a result of that a decree went out to worship only the God of Shadrack,Meshak and Abednigo. That kingdom was more prosperous than the USA at its zenith.
Guest
Oct 20, 2009 4:41 AM CDT
Religion pure and undefiled is to take care of the widow and the fatherless in their time of need. and to keep oneself unspotted from the world with its militarism and deceptive concepts, philosophies and practices which are usually rooted in greed, self centeredness and materialism. This world is full of emptiness in the midst of plenty. There seems to be a black hole in the core of the human spirit. It is an emptiness that cannot be filled with materialism. Sexuallity does not satisfy it. It is like part of us is missing and everyone is asking, "Why are we on this planet?" What is the purpose of Human Life? How do we live? What are we living for? Is there life after death and if so what is the purpose thereof? What will it be like? What will I be doing? These are questions that every human being needs answered. Everyone needs the resolute unadulterated truth which can enable right thinking and right doing which benefits everyone. When a mans ways are right he is at peace even with his enemies.

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