Via CNN: Founder of Islamic TV station accused of beheading wife
The founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes has confessed to beheading his wife, authorities said.Muzzammil Hassan was charged with second-degree murder after police found the decapitated body of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, at the Bridges TV station in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, said Andrew Benz, Orchard Park’s police chief.
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Hassan went directly to the police station after his wife’s death and confessed to killing her, Benz told CNN. Benz declined to give further details.
Sadly, there are two small children (4 and 6) involved here who have now lost their parents.
This is, of course, a horrible story on any number of levels. It will also become a major political one, as not only did Hassan totally undercut the stated goal of his television station, but this will be become a major focus for bloggers and commentators with anti-Muslim inclinations (at the moment, however, Memeorandum hasn’t lit up about this story–there is only one such example at the moment).
