Outrage Occasionally Has A Place

Last Thursday, according to the Buffalo News, Muzzammil Hassan reported the death of his wife to authorities.

His wife, Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, is pictured above with her husband. Detectives have charged her husband, 44, with second-degree murder.

Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said that she had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday, February 6th.

It usually makes the newspaper when a man murders his wife (Scott Peterson, etc.), but there are a few things the Buffalo News fails to mention--she was beheaded.

Mark Steyn at the Corner in National Review Online notes that most of the mainline press has been very quiet about this incident.  The New York Post ran a short story and the hometown press (Buffalo News) ran it, but that's about it.  Contrast that with what happened when Mr. Hassan launched his TV network.  According to Mark Steyn:

"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"."

"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."

According to the National Review article:

"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."

The silence is amazing.  The people who constantly talk about women's rights should be screaming very loudly about this incident.  America does have a problem with domestic violence--that's what restraining orders are for, but beheadings in America are not particularly common among our population.