Aasiya Hassan

Some of you may recall that a little over a year ago, a woman in Buffalo, NY, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, was beheaded – yes, I said beheaded – allegedly by her husband, a Muslim with influence in his community, having created a tv network to improve the image of Muslims. He was charged with second degree murder. It was a shocking, troubling, disturbing crime on so many levels (Was it purely domestic violence? Were there religious influences at play?). (Photo: homelandsecurityus.com) Much has...Read Full Story

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/ GUILTY! Moderate Muslim Beheader Convicted of Islamic Honor Killing in New York, “Hassan may have been conscious when the defendant started to behead her” Moderate Muslim Moe Hassan has been convicted of murder in the honor killing of his wife Aasiya. It was premeditated, cold blooded murder under the sharia. After repeatedy beating her for years (also sanctioned under Islamic law). And that means that the Buffalo-area Muslim community writ large ought to...Read Full Story

Muzzammil Hassan is raising a psychiatric self-defense justification, claiming that he stabbed his wife 40+ times and then cut off & kicked her head because she called him names and argued with him. In order to succeed on such a “battered spouse” justification defense, Hassan has to introduce expert psychiatric testimony to establish that, in fact, he was a battered spouse, and that he murdered his abuser out of self-preservation. But no one wanted to testify for him. So, Hassan took a...Read Full Story

I know I promised a further analysis of the Muzzammil Hassan trial and verdict, but really – what more can I say?  I’ve analyzed the facts as they are pretty well over the past couple of weeks. I’ve repeated myself several times about what’s at the heart of the issue.  I predicted a 45 minute jury deliberation, and they were out exactly 50 minutes. Let me turn then briefly to the one part of the trial I didn’t write about – the summations. If you ever watched Boston Legal, the lawyers on...Read Full Story

Muzzammil Hassan completed his direct testimony yesterday, leading the jury through his version of the events of January and February 2009. It was largely similar to the previous days of Hassan testimony, whereby he narrated a story for the jury over frequent prosecution objections and stumbling over evidentiary issues.  Hassan needed to tell the jury all about his feelings, at the hands of Aasiya Zubair‘s “bullying” and “controlling” behavior. Aasiya clearly wanted out of the marriage...Read Full Story