Beheaded in Buffalo: The Honor Killing of Asiya Z. Hassan

Barbaric Islamist cruelty towards women is now in our own backyard. The term "domestic violence" is far too mild.

By Phyllis Chesler

On February 13, 2009, in Orchard Park, a suburb of Buffalo, 44 year-old Muzzamil Hassan, a prominent Muslim businessman was arrested for having be-headed his wife, 37 year-old Aasiya Z. Hassan. Yes, he beheaded her. Aasiya’s crime? She dared to obtain an order of protection which forced her violent husband out of their home.

We are now sadly familiar with some high profile Islamic beheadings of infidels in Muslim lands; Daniel Pearl, Nicholas Berg, immediately come to mind. Sadly, we are also familiar with the practice of beheading, dismembering, burying alive, and stoning Muslim (and sometimes Christian) women to death in Muslim lands. But this took place in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, in America, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. What can this mean? Why behead a wife who wanted a divorce and who wanted to live free of daily violence? Why didn’t Hassan just agree to a divorce? Read more ...

Source: Pajamas Media

Muzzammil Hassan
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Should honorcide be classified as a hate crime?
	I am a Muslim
	Yes
	No
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be disciplined
	No: any female dishonoring her family must severely punished
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be put to death
	No: honorcide is a fiction
	I am not a Muslim
	Yes
	No
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be disciplined
	No: any female dishonoring her family must severely punished
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be put to death
	No: honorcide is a fiction