He's depraved on account-a he's deprived. In an apotheosis of Qur'an 4:34, the "wife-beating verse," Muzzammil Hassan beheaded his wife in the studio of the moderate Muslim television network he founded, Bridges TV. Now, in a classic Islamic supremacist displacement of responsibility onto the victim, he is claiming that his wife abused him, not the other way around. "'Battered spouse' defense allowed in beheading trial," by Sandra Tan and Matt Gryta for the Buffalo News, September 4 (thanks to Mark):
After waiting 1 1/2 years for cable executive Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan to face murder charges in the stabbing and beheading of his wife, prosecutors suffered a blow Friday when a judge ruled that the defense can introduce evidence of "battered spouse syndrome."Prosecutors said the decision by Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk forced them to seek a delay -- the third since the start of this year -- in the trial, now scheduled for Jan. 10, nearly two full years after Aasiya Zubair Hassan was killed.
Jury selection had been set to begin Wednesday.
"I don't want anyone to think for a moment that I am particularly happy with this," Franczyk said.
In response, District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said he was infuriated at being forced to seek another delay because of "psychiatric hide-and-seek" by the defense.
"This is what is so darn maddening," he said.
Julie Atti Rogers, one of Hassan's lawyers, said the defense did not desire to delay the trial.
"We never wanted a postponement," she said. "We never intended this case to get pushed out into the new year. That being said, we are happy ... to have his doctor testify regarding the evaluation that she did and the diagnosis that she made."
Rogers and co-defense counsel Jeremy D. Schwartz said Ana Natasha Cervantes, a Buffalo forensic psychiatrist, and Kenneth Corvo, a Syracuse psychologist, are ready to testify that Hassan suffered from "spousal abuse syndrome."
Hassan has been jailed since Feb. 12, 2009, when he turned himself in to Orchard Park police after the body of his wife was found in the studio of Bridges TV, the Muslim-oriented cable station the couple had co-founded five years earlier.
Sedita and lead prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable said they had asked defense attorneys at least a dozen times whether they planned to introduce a psychiatric defense, only to be told "no," "maybe" and "yes," at different points.
Rogers responded that the defense's plans for psychiatric testimony were hampered by changes in counsel, lack of funds to obtain a psychiatrist until May and a last-minute refusal by an expert in July to serve as a witness, forcing Hassan's lawyers to scramble for another expert.
She also said her client is "pleased and happy" that his claims of spousal abuse will be heard at trial.
"He feels like he's finally going to have a fair opportunity in court," Rogers said. "It's his constitutional right to present a defense, and he's going to be given that right as a result of this decision."
Prosecutors pointed out that, in January, Franczyk had barred a battered spouse defense and reiterated that position only last week.
But Friday, Francyzk changed his mind, citing the prosecution's recently stated intent to introduce prior, uncharged evidence of Hassan's abuse of his wife as proof of motive in the killing.
A week before her death, Aasiya Zubair Hassan had filed a divorce affidavit, obtained by The Buffalo News, chronicling a history of physical and psychological abuse, with accompanying photos of physical bruising.
She also had filed numerous police complaints over the years but never followed through in pressing charges.
Sedita said the prosecution's intent to introduce indications of domestic violence by Hassan should come as a surprise to no one.
"Of course we want to bring in evidence of motive," Sedita said Friday afternoon. "That's pretty important part of every case."
Citing delays by Hassan's lawyers in revealing their strategy -- despite criminal law mandating early disclosure -- Gable told the judge, "This is the very situation that we predicted would happen" months ago.
Sedita later added, "If we do not ask for an adjournment, the defense is rewarded for their hide-and-seek tactics, and the prosecution is forced to go to trial with their hands tied behind their back." [...]
Though Hassan had to be dragged into and out of court last week, when he repeatedly referred to Franczyk as a "voodoo" judge, he remained calm Friday.Earlier Friday, the judge heard contradictory accounts of problems in Hassan's marriage.
The prosecution said Hassan had caused a miscarriage four years ago by dragging and sitting on his pregnant wife, while the defense said she had threatened to kill Hassan in his sleep.
Atti Rogers told the judge the defense team will prove, through e-mails and other material, that Hassan's wife threatened him with a knife hours before she was beheaded and previously had threatened to move back to their native Pakistan with their two young children.
Hassan has two older children by a previous marriage.
The defense also said the victim verbally antagonized Hassan through their nine-year marriage and subjected him to "debilitating abuse" that caused Hassan to have low self-esteem, be medically depressed and in need of professional threatment.
Atti Rogers also said in court that Aasiya Zubair Hassan had kicked, slapped and struck her husband almost every day. At the time of the beheading, she said, Hassan feared he never would see his children again. His wife also had threatened to burn down their house and crash his car, the defense claimed.
Well, then! Off with her head!
Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan will burn fovever in hell fire, cause he killed a Muslim.
http://newstime.co.nz/sheik-feiz-muhammad-wants-geert-wilders-beheaded.html
Beheadings of non-Mulsims is ordered by Allah, in his Quran, 8:12 & 47:4 and amputation of hands & feet for unbelievers & thiefs in 5:33, 5:38 For adultary Quran 24:2 and 24:4
Islam the religion of piece
That this person will be allowed a battered spouse defense is of course an utter joke & travesty-of-justice, homage to political correctness in the courtroom. He's giving yet another blow to his now-deceased wife.
In this laughable/tragic vein, enjoy these Muslim-based skits to lighten your day,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS4v_kj9rw4
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/175
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/80
the lottery,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxupYD05Zo
Muzzamil has not posted in awhile, huh? Weird.
I can't imagine a Muslim man putting up with physical or any other kind of abuse from the woman that he has power of life or death over accorded him by the Koran.
But even if he did, why not just repudiate her as is his right, rather than inflict such a disproportionate response? He's lying, of course. He had murder in his heart.
He may not burn in hell. Muslim or not, she was a woman - remember?
She's worth only half of a man.
"A week before her death, Aasiya Zubair Hassan had filed a divorce affidavit, obtained by The Buffalo News, chronicling a history of physical and psychological abuse, with accompanying photos of physical bruising."
By filing this divorce affidavit, and giving evidence of a long history of "physical and psychological abuse" at the hands of her husband, even supplying "photos of physical bruising," the wife dared to involve the man-made laws of the Infidels. That was intolerable. She was acting as if not Muslim laws, the Shari'a, applied, but some stupid family laws made up by Infidels. What could be more absurd and insulting to Islam?
She apoparently ignored, or thought she could overlook, what the Qur'an and Sunnah say about women, and about what a husband can do to a wife if she disobeys him, and continues to disobey him. She forgot not only 4.34, byt many other passages in the Qur'an, and many stories in the Hadith. She was not being true to Islam. She was not yielding to her husband. She appeared to forget that a Muslim man can do what he wants with his wife or wives and children, if they are disobedient to his despotic rule.
So he did what, in his own world, the world from which he came, and which as long as he took Islam to heart he would never really leave, and in the same way, as long as he took Islam to heart he could never integrate into American or any other Infidel society, but would always remain a kind of zombie, for another world, whatever his outward aspect -- not all Muslims, but those who take Islam to heart, as I noted above -- and so he did what he could have done back in Pakistan, say, or Bangladesh -- killed her, and gotten away with a very light sentence, as Muslims do every day for similar crimes, all over the Muslim-ruled lands.
But he forgot -- in his hate and rage he forgot -- that he was not in Dar al-Islam but in the United States. And so he will pay for what Infidels regard as a crime, punishable by death or by life imprisonment, and in Muslim lands, punishable at most by a few years of jail but more often, not punished at all.
I wonder if he will also invoke her damage to his "honor." After all, in filing for divorce, she showed his fellow Muslims -- he, the founder of Bridges TV -- that he was not the lord and master that Muslim men believe they have a perfect right to be. And that filled him with shame. And he had to get rid of the source of that shame. He had a week to think about it, and think about it he did, and then, after that period of thought, he could stand it no longer, and decapitated her.
For that, in this society though not in the society he continued mentally to inhabit, that is a crime and our norm, not the Muslim norm but our norm, calls for a severe sanction.
"I wonder if he will also invoke her damage to his "honor." After all, in filing for divorce, she showed his fellow Muslims -- he, the founder of Bridges TV -- that he was not the lord and master that Muslim men believe they have a perfect right to be."
BINGO!!!
Let him use abused spouse defense. He has a right to defend himself. Let him use the ufo voodoo people made him do it defense too. In America one has the right to make a fool of one's self. There is no story here. The real story would be if at trial his lawyer made the abused spouse defense a centerpiece argument, rather than the typical no-premeditation, it was heat of passion defense.
Uh... yes, your Honor, My client was abused by the vict... I mean, the defen... No... Uh? Your Honor, my client was abused by the deceased, so yes, he stabed her multiple times. But I want to request of the court that the beheading of the deceased was a "cultural issue" and is not to be brought up again during the month of Ramadon as to not offend my client, and his jiha... I mean, his religious friends
Thank you your Honor.
"...Atti Rogers also said in court that Aasiya Zubair Hassan had kicked, slapped and struck her husband almost every day. At the time of the beheading, she said, Hassan feared he never would see his children again. His wife also had threatened to burn down their house and crash his car, the defense claimed.
Well, then! Off with her head!..."
Well, this is one I'll let the courts and the forensics people work out. Muzzammil Hassan does indeed seem to be a piece of work, but it's credible that there was domestic violence from both sides. While I certainly do not approve of domestic violence from either partner, there are cases of women who get battered (and murdered) because they physically attack their men.
The prosecution said Hassan had caused a miscarriage four years ago by dragging and sitting on his pregnant wife
Being the grotesquely fat thing that it (not he) is, that dirtbag should face charges of attempted homicide in addition to those of homicide proper.
The whole thing is ridiculous.
It's not like the knife slipped and he killed her, or he momentarily lost his mind. Sawing a person's head off takes quite a bit of effort and time. He beheaded his wife, good Lord...
No, actually she kept attacking him, attacking his knife, over and over and over again with her neck until he was helpless to do anything but watch her head fall to the ground. This was a classic case of suicide by Muslim husband.
Why is it that Muslim males are always whining about how the women in their families made them kill them? Doesn't that make them the biggest wooses on the face of the earth?
That this man violently attacked Aasiya while she was pregnant, causing her to miscarry, is completely plausible.
Muslim men seem to have a penchant for violently attacking pregnant women, not only non-Muslim pregnant women (see the jihadist torture-murder of Rivka Holzberger in Nariman House in Mumbai, and the gangland-style murder of heavily-pregnant Tali Hatuel and her four little daughters by a gang of jihadists in the vicinity of Gaza in May 2004, and the jihadist assassination, at point blank range, just this last week, of nine-months'-pregnant Talia Ames, near Hebron) but also...their own.
Here is a report from the UK 'Telegraph' newspaper, that appeared in jihadwatch in November 2008:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/11/muslim-medic-in-uk-muslim-men-think-they-have-god-given-right-to-beat-wives.html
"Muslim men 'think they have God-given right to beat wives', claims female Muslim medic," by Martin Beckford for the Telegraph, November 7.
"Fatima Husain, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, has told how she sees Muslim women coming for treatment with strangle marks around their necks and bruises on their pregnant bumps.
'Dr Husain, who works at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals in Berkshire, told the Muslim News that many women ask to be referred to her specialist clinics because she is a hijab-wearing Muslim, allowing her to discover the true scale of domestic violence in her religious community.
'She said: "I've seen injuries on some of my patients that I wouldn't dream would happen to pregnant women.
"I've seen strangle marks, finger marks on their necks and bruises on their pregnant abdomens.
"Domestic violence is supposedly equally divided amongst the various groups but I get the impression it is more common in Muslims.
"Some Muslim men think they have a God-given right to be physically violent to their spouses. I see the result of all this when they are admitted as my patients."...
One should not forget that Australian reporter Geraldine Brooks in her book ‘Nine Parts of Desire’, discussing the trial in the UK of a Sudanese Muslim immigrant who had murdered his wife in an ‘honor’ killing, records that in the early 1990s a study undertaken by the British police discovered that in the UK women with Muslim husbands were **eight times more likely to be murdered by their spouses** {my emphasis - dda}, than women married to men of any other belief system.
Got that, ladies? - being married to a Muslim is 8 times more likely to get you killed, than being married to a man who holds to any other belief system.
Now, here is a report from Pakistan.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/02/pakistan-1-million-pregnant-women-abused-annually.html
"Annually an estimated one million pregnant Pakistani women are physically abused at least once during pregnancy by their partners."
'This was said by Prof Unaiza Niaz, the president of the Women Section of World Psychiatric Association and director of the Institute of Psycho-Trauma Pakistan, while delivering a lecture on Gender issues and Women’s Mental Health at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) here [i.e. Lahore, Pakistan] on Friday..
And from Turkey, just this year:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/domestic-abuse-rampant-in-modern-moderate-turkey.html
From that news story:
"...according to a 2009 Turkish government report, 42 percent of women surveyed said they had been the victims of either physical or sexual abuse by their husband or partner.
The report concluded that one in four married Turkish women had been injured by partner violence.
'**Meanwhile, one in 10 Turkish women were injured by such violence while pregnant** {my emphasis - dda}".
The reports from Pakistan and Turkey must be read while grimly bearing in mind that what is actually going on is probably much worse than is being admitted to: because these are heavily-Islamised societies steeped in an honor-shame mindset that generally seeks to cover up and deny wrongdoing. The Turkish news story says as much:
'Some Turkish activists fear the real statistics for violence against women may actually be much higher.
'"In all domestic surveys there are 'shadow figures.' That is because women are not willing to tell about the violence, it's a very sensitive issue," says Pinar Ilkkaracan, a co-founder of the Istanbul-based group Women for Women's Human Rights.
"We think it's much higher then 42 percent."...
Whether the accusations are true or not, 4:34 does not justify continuous beating. There are haddith that expand on the verse making it clear it's to be light. It is also clearly a last resort that, if unsuccessful, divorce is to be sought. If he was abused by his wife then he had just as much right within the laws of Islam to seek a divorce.
The following verse (4:35) also instructs the man and wife to seek counseling if they cannot make reconciliation between themselves. But once again, if they can't be reconciled, divorce becomes proper and necessary.
2:231-232 (along with at least one haddith I can think of off the top on my head) also provides a clear explanation that divorce is not to be prevented. Murder, obviously, is preventing divorce.
Once again, he is clearly a Muslim unaware of his own religion and thus his actions cannot be held as proper representation of Islam.
Your screed about how all Muslims hate all pregnant women (?) would carry more moral weight, if your country didn't legally sanction the murder of hundreds of thousands of babies every year.
Baby murder is illegal in my Hellhole, but not in the USA.
I'm all for allowing this "defense" if it will reduce the chances the murdering bastard can successfully appeal his conviction.
The key in the beheading case will be to exclude muslims from the jury on the grounds they are culturally biased in favor of the defendant and against the victim.
Let's all pray to whatever god(s) we worship that this poor woman finally gets the justice she was denied in life.
We are not concerned with moral weight here. We are concerned with the facts surrounding the murder of an adult woman. You are trying to add apples and oranges.
In your homogenous hellhole, your courts refuse to entertain other citizens' differing religious beliefs. In America we recognize that different religions define the start of life differently and that within certain parameters, decisions about abortion are best left to those most closely involved. They will face God in due time.
Besides, the right to a safe abortion in America is not an absolute right. It can be temporarily nullified by an overwhelming national interest in increasing our population.
And if I had my way, it would become illegal for parasitical misogynistic savages like yourself to live in the West. You'd be deported back to your Pakistani savageland.
Baby murder is illegal in my Hellhole, but not in the USA.
Thats obviously because you want them to grow up to strap on the bomb belts and blow up innocent infidels to collect their 72 raisins.
Savage!
If you read Arabian Nights you'll see that it was quite common for Muslims to lop off their wives heads when they were displeased with them. And those are bedtime fairytales...
"And if I had my way, it would become illegal for parasitical misogynistic savages like yourself to live in the West. You'd be deported back to your Pakistani savageland. "
I'm not Pakistani. The Muslims in Pakistan are mainly strongly opposed to our practice of Islam anyway. What Pakistanis do concerns me very little. It seems to concern your government quite more, given the billions of dollars a year you hand to their war lords.
"In your homogenous hellhole"
Malaysia has a lower percentage of Muslims, and a lower percentage of Malays, than America has Christians and whites. But homogenous is a curse here?
At any rate, we are discussing issues, not me personally. Though my use of the term "baby murder" was inflamitory, sorry for that.
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The point is some Muslim criminal is making a poor attempt to defend himself against an indefendable crime. In my Islamic Hellhole, he'd already have been executed, and there would be a post here about how savage we are.
At any rate, the crime rate in the USA is many, many times that of Malaysia/Indonesia, the largest Muslim cultural block.
But I won't campaign to have all Americans banned from my country just because you have more thieves, murderers and rapists, because I do not believe in collective guilt.
It's quite funny to read an American lecture how brutal and savage all Muslims are, then compare the crime rates of the capitol of the USA vs the mainly-Muslim areas of my country.
mr. muslim....... why use abortion services of a doc, when you violent muslim men can and DO JUST BEAT THE BABY OUT OF THE LADY!!
Shame on you muslims who justify violence against your ladies and little girls based on the ravings of a LUNATIC, CHILD ABUSER, MURDERING RAPIST named mohammed. tsk! tsk!
HAVE YOU NO SHAME???
Apparently in your hellhole YOU don't.
"Though Hassan had to be dragged into and out of court last week, when he repeatedly referred to Franczyk as a "voodoo" judge, he remained calm Friday."
He is clearly quite mad. It can't be an easy life, being a believing Muslim in a society of Infidels and their laws, being obliged to present Islam as a happy alternative to them while your wives are abusing you and making your life miserable. Some can't cope with it.
And now YusefYK mentions Malaysia, the country of preferential treatment to Muslim Malays - and per law a Malay is a Muslim - perhaps we shouldn't trust numbers and statistics all that much, still I notice that the murder rate is more than double that of my country.
MightyRubble can rest assured that in Egypt there is a campaign to ban "Arabian Nights", for being indecent.
And @oicruok: we can be quite certain that Hassan was aware of his right and duties, it was part of his job to tell everyone so, and being mad he had chosen to interpret them the maddest way he could. The Quran is always open to that.
The true nature of Hassan or a ploy to set up for a reduced mental capacity defense?
Three little words could have fixed this before violence...Not 'I love you', but talak, talak, talak...
Instead Hassan invoked the 'Red Queen' and went for the throat...
if your country didn't legally sanction the murder of hundreds of thousands of babies every year.
Murder is illegal, abortions are not...However I understand your point...Abortion is a controversial issue in the US, not cut and dried...The entire question rests on two other questions...When does life begin, and is that a human being developing in the womb, or not?...
That discussion is way off topic...So I will end it here...
Swami and Yuesf K: As a matter of fact, one reason why a lot of us say that OBAMA means One-Big-A$$-Mistake-America is because he is one of the most pro-abortion people ever to sit in our Senate. This, his association with a black racist agitator masquerading as a Christian pastor, and his mentoring by open Communists (something which you folks in Malaysia probably have a problem with, too) was what led us to vote against him. Even today, I do not credit reports of his being a Muslim (as opposed to a modern materialist), even when he occasionally throws out Muslim terminology.
I don't see anything indicating they DON'T plan to make it the centerpiece argument. My money is on their doing just that.
Social science research has repeatedly shown that if one asks someone else for a BIG favor, that request is more likely to be granted than if one asked for a small favor. In the justice system, defense attorneys representing monsters seem often to favor a kindred approach: they posit absurdly improbable motives and rationales for their clients' crimes (HE was the abused one, NOT she!) as opposed to merely mitigating ones (heat-of-passion).
Law & Order, a TV show mainly based on real cases in NYC, had an episode featuring Muslim honor killing in which the defendant, brother of the murdered girl, was - I believe - exonerated due to cultural factors. I can see that happening here, and it is a deeply frightening imagining.
Once it can be substantiated that the woman was abused, advocates must go on the offensive. Are domestic violence victims' advocacy groups planning any protests?
The judge probably made the right decision. Allowing the battered spouse defense merely means that the defense can present it, not that it will get him off. It's an affirmative defense, meaning that the defense has the burden of proof. They've got to establish that he was battered by his wife and that this caused the murder. The judge will instruct the jury on this.
If the judge did not allow the defense to present this defence, it would serve as grounds for appeal. By allowing it, the judge removes a possible basis for appeal. If he's good, he can still ensure that only probative evidence is introduced and that the jury understands that it can only acquit on this basis if it considers the defense to be well supported by evidence.
Judging from the news reports, I doubt that he'll get far with the battered spouse defense, but I do wonder if he is competant to stand trial. It isn't easy to decide where religious fanaticism ends and true insanity begins.
What know I? But it looks sensible, lol.
Buffalo, New York moderate Muslim who beheaded his wife allowed battered-spouse defense
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Let's hope the jury sees this for the insulting bullsh*t it is.
It is very clear to me that "millions" of so called "Christians" are ignorant, and this is because so many so called "Christians" are ignoring all the dangerous facts about the religion of islam.
I am a True Christian, and I KNOW what and who I am supposed to love.
We are called by Christ to love our enemies just as much as we are called to love our families, friends, and neighbors, and this is because they are HUMAN.
But, we are NOT called to love any THING that comes against Christ, or that is antichristian.
The cultish religion known as islam is hateful, murderous, and antichristian, as well as antiamerican and antijewish.
And, islam goes even further by DEMANDING that its followers evict or kill ALL infidels, and in some cases it DEMANDS that muslims evict or kill anyone who is simply a non-muslim.
So many so called "Christians" are asking all people to love islam and the unholy koran.
This is NOT the love Jesus has asked His Children to give.
We are NOT called as Christians to love any THING that is antichristian.
It just goes to show us that many misguided people are fighting for the wrong THINGS.
And, it goes to show just how evil the muslim world actually is compared to all other religions.
The muslim leaders are either losing control over their followers, or the muslim leaders are not stopping the muslim terrorists because those muslim terrorists are helping to advance the islamic purpose of forcing the entire world to accept islam or be killed by being beheaded.
The Holy Christian and Jewish Bible warns of a day when the antichrist comes into power, and that this antichrist will command his followers to behead anyone who does not take his mark in their forehead or in their right hand.
The muslim mahdi "savior" that the muslims are looking for to come could very well be this antichrist, and it may very well be possible that this muslim mahdi "savior" will demand that everyone globally must receive his mark of islam, or be beheaded, just as this muslim beheaded his own wife.
We need to be well informed about everything about islam, and we need to make certain we are not blinded by other people who are trying their best to water down the immediate and long term dangers of muslim terrorists!
Burning the evil and unholy koran is NOT showing the muslims that we hate THEM as a people, but that is how misguided people are making it appear.
All this defense of the muslims is going to backfire one day, and many people are going to wish they had kept the muslims where they belong, and that is in their own fully sharia controlled muslim countries.
If you are muslim, and you are reading this, then please ask Jesus to save you from yourself, from sin, and from islamic antichristian teachings.
You can learn how and why Jesus Christ is God Almighty by going to my following website.
Thank you!
http://JESUSisGOD.com/GospelTracts