Muzzammil Hassan

Once upon a time there was a moderate Muslim. He was so moderate he didn’t even bother growing a beard. But though he was Islamically moderate one thing that concerned him was the fact that, in the USA, Muslims have a very poor image. Accordingly, Muzzammil Hassan decided to set up a television network called Bridges TV – a network that would only broadcast news and programmes portraying Muslims in a positive manner. Hey! What a great idea! I mean, we all know Muslims get a rough deal on the...Read Full Story

by Robert Spencer BEHEADING: Oh, it's just domestic violence!   Last Thursday, a woman named Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, was found decapitated in Orchard Park, New York, a village near Buffalo. Her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, was charged, rather oddly, with second-degree murder in the case. But the specter of someone who beheaded his wife being charged only with second-degree murder was the least of the oddities in this case: Aasiya Hassan’s body was found in the offices of the...Read Full Story

Updated A former television executive was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for the beheading death of his wife. After an hour of deliberation, an upstate New York jury convicted Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan of second-degree murder last month after a three-week trial. In imposing the sentence, Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk also issued a protection order on behalf of Hassan's two children. In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering...Read Full Story

A former New York television executive accused in the beheading of his estranged wife exchanged text messages with the woman just minutes before her death. Police learned about the incident Feb. 12, 2009 when Muzzammil Hassan went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead at Bridges TV. Hassan, 46, who founded Bridges TV (a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes), took officers to the network's office where...Read Full Story

It took a jury in New York just 50 minutes today to find Muzzammil Hassan guilty of second-degree murder for beheading his wife. In February of 2009, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, who ironically established a TV network aimed at erasing Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station near Buffalo and told authorities his wife was dead. He had decapitated Aasiya Hassan , his wife of nine years, and according to prosecutor Paul Bonanno , the knife he had used to behead her left marks on his office’s...Read Full Story