Muslim TV Exec Found Guilty of Beheading His Wife
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan never denied that he killed Aasiya Hassan inside the suburban Buffalo station the couple established to promote cultural understanding. A jury deliberated for one hour before rejecting his claim that the killing was justified because he was long abused by and afraid of his wife.
Hassan, who’s stocky and more than 6 feet tall, acted as his own lawyer during the trial. He said nothing when the verdict was read. His reaction was blocked from view by a line of sheriff’s deputies and court officers standing behind him at the defense table.
The Pakistan-born Hassan, 46, had been served with divorce papers a week before his wife’s body was found at the offices of Bridges TV in Orchard Park, where the couple also lived. Hassan was arrested after walking into the Orchard Park police station Feb. 12, 2009, and calmly telling officers his wife, who was slender and several inches shorter than him, was dead.
Prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable said Hassan bought two hunting knives less than an hour before the attack, parked his luxury vehicle out of view at the station and then hid in wait inside. During a 37-second frenzy that began when Hassan’s wife walked through the door, he stabbed her more than 40 times in the face, back and chest and decapitated her. Surveillance video captured some of the attack inside a darkened hallway.
Curtin Gable said Hassan “went on and on about his hurt and pain.”
“Think of Aasiya’s hurt and pain in years of marriage and the final 30 or 40 seconds . trying desperately to fend off his two knives with her hands and possibly being conscious as he began to behead her,” Curtin Gable said during a closing statement that had some jurors dabbing tears from their eyes.
Hassan spent his two-hour closing remarks describing himself as a slave to his wife’s rages. He said he was let down by a domestic-violence system that refuses to recognize men as victims.
He said a “religion of patriarchy” in the domestic-violence system had “unleashed a bloodbath on American women because battered men have no legal way out.”
“You‘re the only ones who’ve ever heard my side of the story after silence for 10 years,” Hassan told jurors.
He said he didn’t blame his wife, but her troubled childhood, for abusive behavior he called “the evil dragon.”
But Hassan never produced any witnesses or evidence to corroborate his abuse claims, unlike prosecutors, who cited numerous police reports filed by his wife and her medical records to prove she was the battered spouse.
Aasiya Hassan, 37, had sought treatment for ailments including neck and back pain and early onset cataracts, which may have been caused by repeated trauma, Curtin Gable said.
When Mo Hassan killed his wife, their then 4- and 6-year-old children were buckled into car seats outside in a van along with his teenage son from one of his two previous marriages. His wife had been on her way to take them to dinner when she ran into the station to drop off his laundry.
After the killing, the two younger children were sent to live with their mother’s family in Pakistan, Hassan’s attorneys have said. Hassan also had a teenage daughter.
The Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims in a post-9/11 world and provide programming for the growing Muslim-American population. Bridges TV continues to broadcast.
In the months leading up to his trial, Hassan had explored various versions of a psychiatric defense with different attorneys, who said they would pursue an acquittal by showing the killing was justified.
But prosecutors said it was clear Hassan was a master manipulator who sought to control every aspect of his wife’s life, especially after she’d filed for divorce and put his reputation at risk.
“How dare she tell him enough is enough?” Curtin Gable said. “He was not going to let that happen.”
From the start, his lawyers dismissed suggestions that culture played a role in the killing.
Immediately after the wife’s death, the manner in which she died prompted speculation her death was an honor killing. The practice is still accepted among some fanatical Muslim men, including in the couple’s native Pakistan, who feel betrayed by their wives.
Attorney Nadia Shahram, who lectures on the effects of religion and culture on family law at the University at Buffalo, said Monday she believed “this was more than a domestic-violence homicide.”
Shahram, who was in the courtroom for closing arguments, said several factors led her to believe the death was “a mix of domestic violence and honor killing,” including the separation of the victim’s head from her body.
“He separated the mind, which he saw as worthless, and kicked it,” she said.
Hassan fired three of his lawyers and replaced a fourth with himself. He kept the fourth lawyer as an adviser, as required by law. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced March 9.



















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mcFirst
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:02amThis would make a good episode on Katie’s Muslim Comedy Hour.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:01amHow can they find him guilty? He was just practicing his “religion”.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:58amMo was working on a new TV series for on the muslim network, it was to be called How To Get A Head in America.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:12amOhhh….that’s so wrong….yet so witty.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:23am@War Pigs I tried Thanks
Report Post »psst
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:45amStreet. I had posted a reply to you on how to really get a head in ameriKa..
Report Post »Unfortunately, freedom of expression was sent to the gulag at that time.
It happens here more frequently than folks may think.
Carl1
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:54amIt takes a real low life of a Man / Religion to behead a human being. And that they are!
Report Post »florida123
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:51amIs this one of the peaceful, freedom loving Muslums the world is speaking about????? NO TO SHARIA LAW IN THE USA! Americans will fight to the death to stop anything that even resembles Sharia Law!
Report Post »RobR
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:46amThe Hussans started the Bridges TV station in 2004 to counter negative muslim stereotypes. Talk about a Bridge to nowhere…….
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:44amWe are at war with Islam…the only other choice would be to lay down and allow them to slaughter us. You can not sit down and talk with these people and expect any real progress or communication. They are commanded by their ‘god’ to kill those who do not follow their faith. This is the truth. It comes straight from their ‘holy book’. Whatever stating this truth makes me, I can live with it. Wake up…before they cut your throat.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:39pmThe koran is PURE EVIL. The headquarters are now located in the W.H.
Report Post »For my Liberty!
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:42pmNot to mention that there is NO such thing as a “Peaceful” Muslim..They are just “sleepers” until the time comes that they carry out what their book tells them to…ANYONE that believes Islam is a peaceful religion, believes that at the risk of their lives.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:43amOK, let me get this straight. The couple forms a TV station to get the word out about “ stereo typing ” of muslims, and the result is this? Sounds like the guy is hypocritical!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:24amHypocritical:
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Do you think?!!!!!!!!.
hempstead1944
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:43amHillary, Nancy, Joyce, and the rest of the female libs are really going to like it when Shariah Law arrives here in the US….
Report Post »TexasTall
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:11amIt’s already here in muslim communities throughout the U.S. As of now, they’re practicing their own laws(religion) and ignoring the Constitution while CAIR and other muslim organizations are campaigning for sharia.. Clerics in mosques all over the world and in the U.S. are fomenting mouth-foaming, spittle-spewing hatred for non-muslims (infidels) and the freedoms that they enjoy while trying to destroy those same freedoms. No wonder so many of them are schizoidal mass murderers.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:34amYou just have to love those peaceful Muslims now don’t you. I can‘t believe he isn’t getting the death penalty. He was battered alright. But not as much as he will when he gets to know Bubba.
Report Post »leonie alemann
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:44pmNY doesn’t have a death penalty, that’s why. It was gutted in the courts years ago, and no legislature since has had the gumption to re-write it or write a new one. However, the county DA reports that, if Hassan gets 25-to-life he has to do 25 years before he’s eligible for parole. 46+25=71 years old. Per the DA, most people sentenced to 25-to-life die in prison; NY‘s parole board doesn’t parole many murderers. Just because he‘s eligible doesn’t mean he’ll get it. And 25+ years in Attica is, in some ways, better than the death penalty. He’ll suffer more. Imagine a control freak like him in prison, where you don’t even control when you eat or when the lights go out??
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:19amleonie alemann
Report Post »He’ll suffer more in prison, imagine a control freak like him…
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Isn’t that just the kind who runs everything in prison, remember, our prison system advertised for Imam’s to care for the fast growing Muslim population.With all the emphasis on continuing education, and all the idiocy out of our Judicial system he’ll probably get to computer school to get a doctorate in Muslim studies and be able to recruite (sp?) after all he certainly can explain sharia. When he does get out we’re liable to find him teaching in a certain Tx school district.
psst
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:32amThe founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Good Job. Well done. How is that countering negative Moslem stereotypes brainwashing programme going among normal Americans.
Um. I think these Moslem are totally confused . They should have called it the reinforcing negative Moslem stereotype studio w/ a tolerance for beheading One’s spouse.
Allahu Akbar. Um. Mebbe it’s Aloha akbar.
Muslims have tricked the Hawaiian legislature into celebrating Islam on September 11th. Hawaii has no Christianity Day, no Judaism Day, and no Buddhism Day, but Hawaii’s Democrat Legislators passed a resolution to create Islam Day.
By a 22-3 vote the Hawaii Senate May 7 approved House Concurrent Resolution 100 which designates September 24, 2009 as Islam Day. The State House had quietly approved the measure without dissent March 17.
Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2009/05/bikinis-burkas-and-beaches-of.html#ixzz1DNFgFM3h
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:43amWhat happens on that day? All muslim men chop off there wife’s heads, or run down there daughters with a truck.
Report Post »Fina_Biscotti
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:48amAbsolutely disgusting – but yet non-Muslims do not have freedom of expression – to be offended – bc they could be harrassed, intimidated….or beheaded.
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 3:41pmWhen is the ACLU going to scream separation of church and state? I know this is bogus but for crying out loud why isn’t the ACLU cronies being consistant on this?
Report Post »Pray for USA
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:23amI hope Katie Couric reaches out to him. He has some great ideas for a Muslim sitcom. And he experience with a TV studio. Maybe she can bankroll him.
Report Post »dantom
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:23amAfter he is given probation maybe he and Katie can get together and have that muslim TV show.
Report Post »Alexandra1214
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:22amIslam …… the religion of peace …… uh huh ….. right …… whatever!!!!!!
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:20amWe used to have a death penalty in NY State for pre-meditated murder. Especially for people who admitted to the crime and/or when the crime was extremely brutal like this!
Why isn’t this loser going to fry in the electric chair like he should?
PROGRESSIVES! That’s why.
Report Post »Fina_Biscotti
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:07amThe Muslim is not frying – bc of Eric Holder as US AG – the RADICAL MUSLIM Sympathizer.
Just as the illegal aliens who went on a Vicious killing spree……as serial killers. Holder stepped in…to assist them…..NOT to get the death penalty.
Report Post »Mackerel
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:19am“Little Mosque On The Prairie.”
Report Post »dantom
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:24amIn real life.
Report Post »Slobaphobe
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:53amTonight’s episode: “ Honor Thy Wife”
Report Post »Right is right. Left is wrong.
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:21amTonight’s episode: “ Honor Kill Thy Wife”
Report Post »Henry Scougal
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:14amMy dear friends, very sad story. Unfortunately, more of this to come, much, much, much, more. The repubic has to WAKE UP.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:56amI’m infuriated, just like you.
Report Post »We have to stay focused on 2012. Channel you’re anger into action by becoming involved in the political process.
Let this Progressive/PC corect/anti-white/anti-US/anti-Capitalist bigotry galvanize your resolve. Forward examples of their hatred, etc. It won’t be hard to find, I’d say.
blanco
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:07amSharia law —coming soon to a town near you!!!!!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:46amNever! They will be eliminated.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:03amI pray for those children. I’m glad this monster is off the streets.
Report Post »VotersOfNY
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:00amOne at a time. One at a time.
Report Post »Always On Watch
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:52amI fail to understand why Hassan wasn’t on trial for 1st degree murder.
http://alwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com/
Report Post »Fina_Biscotti
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:09amEric Holder as the most corrupt US Attorney General –
who needs to be thrown in GITMO – as a Political Terrorist – in his Acts of War against The United States of America’s justice system = LAWFARE – a form of Warfare of Radical ISLAM.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:02amit was due to N.Y.state law, it is very hard to prove 1st degree in n.y. unless you kill a cop,or it was a“contract” killing.sucks,but thats the way it is here. this dude is totaliy wacked! this happened in my area of the world,been watching it for months.i would have loved to see this s.o.b. hanged,even his kids was scared to death of him.he even called his own daughter up on the stand to testify for him,she blasted him! (good for her) his kids wanted to go live with the step-mother because they was so scared that he was going to do something.
Report Post »lillianrose
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:49amAnd did they look into the whereabouts of his first wife?
Report Post »lillianrose
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:55amCorrection-his two previous marriages.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:04amHe wasn‘t on trial for Murder because the prosecutors office didn’t want to make the Islamic population mad. Who’d want to see if it was a briefcase or IED his lawyer brought to court.
Report Post »Our Military risk life and face horrendous disabilities to take the battle to them (religious Islamic Extremists) on their home turf, and our government allows them to run a tv station to sell their values and way of life back home.
Unfortunately for this woman, she thought that living in America would protect her from this extreme behavior. Wonder what her children will be taught about it growing up back in Pakistan?
Gonzo
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:51amYet, the media and the left still see a moral equivalence between Islam and Christianity. Wake up America!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:14amthe uk and germany have found out what happens when you get pc about the muslems………………
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:48amIs this what is coming to be In United States of America?. Let’s all do what we can to stop the killings.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:56am.
Report Post »It’s in their DNA to kill women…………..
decendentof56
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:09amWith regards to Katie……. I‘m sure she’ll weigh in on her horror over this.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:19amWas he convicted ??????????? come on it’s about honor .
Report Post »Rabbit43
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:45amYes this is a great example of Muslim culture. The culture that Texas is requiring some schools to teach along with the muslim lanquage. What the H@*#@ is wrong with this country?
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:47pmIt is like every other foul thing the Progressives are forcing on us. Teaching this culture in our public schools and like everything else that is ripping our country apart at the family level, calling good things bad and calling evil things good. No wonder our kids are going nuts and killing each other. We need to get our values back and it will start with getting the governmentprogressives our of our schools, closing our borders until we get back on track, and last because we are at war with radical Islam block them from coming in and driving those here OUT!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:53pmI Wonder how many Liberal Woman Lawyers will volunteer to defend his appeal on the grounds he didn’t have proper legal advice and counsel, and doesn’t understand our law or legal system.
Report Post »Sure seems to be enough of them defending the terrorists
rnurmikko
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:43amI think he is a success. We now have a better Muslim understanding.
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:51amDid someone tell Katie Couric that we get it now and that there is no need for a muslim sitcom… we just real life and that convinced us we should just bow to their way of life… NOT….
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:52am.
Report Post »Found out all I needed to know about Muslims on 9/11. I learned we don’t need them………
Gonzo
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:57amO.J. missed his calling, he would have made a great Muslim role model.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:00amYes, we understand Islam all too well (better than they would like).
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:09amWell, killing your wife is more civilized than the usual “HONOR KILLING” (DAUGHTER SLAUGHTER).
Report Post »http://commonsense21c.com/
decendentof56
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:06amB.O. already has said he ‘wouldn’t want to burden someone with an unwanted child’. That was paraphrasing his words before sleeping Americans voted him into office.
Report Post »He could very well empathize with this hateful Muslim.
CatB
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 12:33pmGonzo
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:57am
O.J. missed his calling, he would have made a great Muslim role model.
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Wait until he is back out of jail .. I wouldn’t doubt he is undergoing his conversion right now.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 12:55pmYeah I agree but will they have an episode like this on Littte mosque on the prairie?
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:43am.
That ought to shut her up………….. Why? How? this is what the unions really want forget cardcheck…….
Alvin691
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:58amWhy don’t you go already?
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:07am.
Report Post »Why do our leaders and the media want us to embrace this religion?
Jackers
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:08amYes… What a shining example of extreme Muslim culture…
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:39amAh yes the religion of peace. Almost as sad as the liberals claiming they are compassionate.
Report Post »REDPILLREADY
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:47amComing to a multicultural embracing, all “tolerant” society near you. Yep, thats us America – if we don’t wake up!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:02amTHIS FURTHER HIGHLIGHTS why there should be very strict scrutiny (with limits) of Muslim immigration to the US. Their belief system is so different from ours that it precludes most of them from ever assimilating to our culture.
Report Post »LOOK AT EUROPE. They will find out in due time that having allowed Muslims to infiltrate (not immigrate) will result in terrorist attacks that they will be unable to stop. When that point arrives, the population will plead for someone to ‘do something’ to stop the violence. That‘s when tyranny will step in to ’protect’ you. You’ll actually beg for it. Don’t doubt me on that one.
AMERICA IS, of course, headed in the same direction.
When that happens, two things will result. Some Americans will react by taking action (rightfully, you could argue) against those Muslim radicals who are here to inact violence against us. The other is that when Americans are afraid to go to the mall for fear of being blown up, that they‘ll beg the government to ’do something’. Of course, they will, and at that point, you will let them.
Our country was founded on Christian Principles. Almost every one of our founders believed in the basic doctrines of Christianity and were active in Christian churches. The ones who ‘sat on the fence’ with regards to the doctrines of Christianity, nonetheless, believed the basic values of Christianity were good for our society.
OUR SYSTEM OF LAWS came from the bible, not the Koran. This makes many Muslims incompatible with system of law. You cannot have two sets of laws under our Rebublic.
IT’S VERY SIMPLE, really. Either you believe in our system of laws, or you don’t. If you propose to change to a system where various groups of ethnicities can have their own laws, you will have anarchy like in, say, the Sudan or Somalia.
Our country was formed because our founders were tired of the religious and political oppression they were subjected to in Europe. They formed a government to, hopefully, not allow that to happen here.
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:09amWow. I’d like to have seen the entire closing arguments of the Prosecutor, Ms Gable.
Report Post »How is it they didn’t charge the evil one with FIRST degree murder?
KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:34amHe wanted to promote a cultural understanding of Islam,
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Report Post »Kpax
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:34amPay no attention to this story. No matter what you have seen with your own eyes or been told about Muslims they really are a peace loving people who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
CatB
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 12:31pmKICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:34am
He wanted to promote a cultural understanding of Islam,
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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I agree!
Report Post »touch
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 2:52pmBridges television, eh?
Yeah right, may you enjoy BUBBA again and again, you POS!
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:15pmThe religion of peace strikes again.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:28pmI wonder if this type of Radical Muslim behaviour was included in the courses being offered in the Texas schools! I‘ll bet it wasn’t.
Report Post »smallstuff7
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:37pmWhat kind of culture provokes and enables its men to take such violent action with no conscience and with relative ease? It’s not too late to stop this volcanic eruption in America, providing only that patriots once more be the deciders of preserving life and liberty, entrusting that responsibility into the hands of leaders who genuinely serve the people. November 2010 was a ray of hope in igniting the light of truth and appointing servants to restore this nation. It’s not too late.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:02amrop lopping off heads? no way! next you’re going to try to sell me a bridge.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:06amtouch
Posted on February 8, 2011 at 2:52pm
Bridges television, eh?
Yeah right, may you enjoy BUBBA again and again, you POS!
unfortunately, lot’s of “bubba”‘s in america’s prisons now belong to rop and will provide full protection for a fellow rop member pos.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:44pmWonder if the Station runs “Little Mosque On The Prairie, He could always appear as the “Friendly Giant” Opposite.
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