Reaction to a Shocking Murder

News last week that the founder of Bridges Television has been arrested and accused of beheading his wife is prompting renewed focus on domestic violence and honor killings among Muslims.

Muzzammil Hassan faces second-degree murder charges in the gruesome death Feb. 12 of his wife Aasiya Hassan. Aasiya had filed for divorce from Muzzammil Hassan and secured a protective order against him just before she was killed.

"This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women's subordination to men," New York State president of the National Organization for Women President Marcia Pappas told the Buffalo News. Read more ...

Source: IPT Blog

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