Two years later, some justice in the beheading of Aasiya Hassan
February 9, 2011
by Amy Siskind
|On Monday, a jury found New York TV Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan guilty of second-degree murder. His crime: beheading his wife, Aasiya Hassan.
Finally!
The beheading occurred two years ago, when The New Agenda was a new organization. What shocked me most was this: other women’s group and women’s advocates refused to speak out at the time (other than Phyllis Chesler who thankfully shouted from the roof tops and then some). Or if they did, they were careful, on grounds of moral relativism, to not label this murder for what it was: Sharia Law on our shores – a beheading.
This case has haunted me. Why? Because this is what I saw: a young woman who looked like any women in the school yard of my kids’ school. She looked like one of us. A friend on the school yard. And such a horrifying end!
Aasiay was lured into her husband’s work office, while her young children were patiently waiting in the car, where he proceeded to torture then behead her.
The New Agenda was the first organization to bring national attention to this beheading. In February 2009, I wrote a piece at The Daily Piece called The Debate Over Aasiya’s Murder in which I argued:
By arguing over the difference between honor-killing and domestic violence, we’re straying from what’s most important: that Aasiya Hassan was senselessly murdered and the laws of our country could not protect her.
Because if you read the article, Aasiya did in fact try to get help from the police. Which shows how our laws are sadly ineffective still in protecting so many victims of abuse.
But the other reality is this: this was a symbolic beheading. Sharia Law on our shores. I was heartened to read over the weekend, in the New York Times, Cameron Criticizes ‘Multiculturalism’ in Britain. And I hope we will be aware of what is happening to women on our shores. And work together to advocate for them best we can.
We owe that to the memory of Aasiya.
I am shocked that the law worked, finally, in this case. And what is it with Liberal Feminists? It is like they need to check with every possible org or group that men can belong to, to be sure they don’t offend anyone by complaining about the status and treatment of women. Someone needs to haul all the Liberal Feminists in and force them to attend an awareness of sexism seminar. At this point they have zero credibility outside of their ivory tower echo chamber.
Liberal feminists spent much more time defending the murderer as a muslim than they did showing outrage against the actual murder. They were all shouting and screaming – this murder has nothing to do with Islam! May be. May be not. But what is important for feminists to consider is that Islamic countries and cultures do have one of the worst rates of violence against women in the world. And second, a woman was killed (as Amy states) as she was actively involved in trying to protect herself against her husband. Whatever the cause, WE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT WOMEN!!!! And how clearly this shows itself to be true when “feminists” spend more time defending Islam than they do condemning the murder of of a woman.
Why wasn’t he charged with first degree murder? This was not a crime of passion or impulse–he used his son to lure her and had get away money stashed. He knew what he was doing–malice of forethought and all that.
How has the “I’m going to run my daughter down because she did not agree to an arranged marriage” guy in AZ doing?
Thank you, Amy, for being the voice for this woman and speaking out at the total insanity of Sharia Law ever being allowed in America for any reason.
Political correctness, when it comes to Sharia Law and the fundamentlist who support it, is just another way of permitting sexism and the total subjugation of women without taking responsibility for agreeing to it by the men (and the misguided/stupid women) in our country.
i hope this guy gets the death penalty. i dont know if they have it in NY but we would have no problem giving it to him in texas.
I would love to compose an opera based on this story. The propblem is civilized people are censored by the terror that is Islam and I am not as courageous a person as Ayann Hirsi Ali. But you can bet this is a story that I shove in the faces of my fabulously liberal friends who defend Islam just because it’s fashionable to do so. They think their appeasement of the “religion of peace” makes them some how intellectually superior to people with common sense.
Listen to these appeasors apologize for Islam is like listening to atonal “music.” You know that it’s just popular nonesense and you wonder why highly educated people don’t have the guts to admitt that it’s just garbage.
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