NY Wife Beheading Blasted as 'Honor Killing'

Muzzammil Hassan founded station to boost Muslim image

(NEWSER) - A man who set up a TV station in New York state to counter negative stereotypes about Muslims has been found guilty of beheading his wife in what lawyers say appears to have been an "honor killing." Muzzammil Hassan, the Pakistan-born owner of Buffalo's Bridges TV, will be sentenced to 25 years to life for killing his wife with two hunting knives 6 days after she filed for divorce, the Guardian reports. More»

Colleagues say woman tried to salvage struggling TV venture

(NEWSER) - Now that authorities have charged Muzzammil Hassan with beheading his wife Aasiya, reports are surfacing that he had beaten her for years, the Buffalo News reports. Local police knew of the violence, but didn't act because Aasiya refused to press charges. “She was afraid she would cause Bridges TV to fail,” said a colleague, of the Muslim lifestyle channel the couple had started. More»

(NEWSER) - The founder of a Muslim TV network in New York has been charged with beheading his wife in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. Muzzammil Hassan, 44, was busted last week after he told police his wife's body could be found at his Buffalo offices and confessed to her murder, reports CNN. Hassan had a history of domestic violence, according to cops. He launched his Bridges TV operation in 2004 to show Muslims in a positive light. More»

$5K being asked for shots of woman posing with gruesome find

(NEWSER) - A photo agency that usually sells paparazzi shots is trying to sell photos of the severed head found near the Hollywood sign earlier this week. One of the dogwalkers who found the head posed for photos with it and is smiling in at least one of them, reports Gawker , which declined to pay the agency $5,000 for the pictures and, after calling around, found that RadarOnline, the Smoking Gun, and the New York Post weren't interested either. More»

'They brought shame to our community,' says killer mother

(NEWSER) - The lives of two more daughters have ended in honor killings—but this time at the hands of their mothers, not fathers. Two Muslim women in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh helped each other use ropes to choke the life from their daughters after the two young women returned home after marrying Hindu men, said police. "We killed them because they brought shame to our community," one of the moms told the Indian Express . "How could they elope with Hindus? They deserved to die. We have no remorse." More»