Head of Bridges TV Beheads His Wife in Buffalo NY

From the Buffalo News:

"Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday."

"Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light."

Aasiya Hassan had recently filed for divorce.  (Photo of Muzzammil Hassan and his wife Aasiya from Buffalo News.)

Wow.  As Robert Spencer says, "...now that he has beheaded his wife, I'm afraid this prominent moderate Muslim will only be feeding those negative perceptions."  Daniel Pipes followed NY-based Bridges after its launch and has a listing of articles about it here.   A New York Sun article from 2006 wrote about the Bridges network programming, noting that the station presented a variety of Muslim community leaders and scholars. 

"Some guests, however, are extremists. One religious figure who appeared October 3 said Muslims have a duty to change America and to increase their numbers to 50% of the population from 2%. He recommended that Shariah, or Islamic law, be implemented in American courts."

"During a roundtable discussion on the Arab-Israeli conflict on October 5, one participant offered a solution: 'For the Jews to leave and return to Europe.' "

Of local interest, Islamic Society of Boston trustee Jamal Badawi has appeared on Bridges:

"Bridges TV aired a speech by the influential Muslim scholar Jamal Badawi on October 4. Mr. Badawi, who teaches Islam throughout North America, gave an interview to the Saudi Gazette on June 24, 2005, in which he raised questions about who was behind the September 11 attacks and suggested that Americans could be behind the car bombings of Iraqi markets."

Mr. Badawi, good friend of Salah Soltan and Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi. Badawi was also specifically named in the Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal of the Group in North America (dated 1991), the Muslim Brotherhood "manifesto" that called for a grand Jihad to eliminate and destroy the Western civilization from within.   No kidding.  The Dr. Jamal Badawi Foundation is listed as "providing the seed of the comprehensive dawa organization."  Leads one to think that the Islamic Society of Boston leadership may not be the "Moderate Muslims"^TM they claim to be. Fifth column, anyone?

Anyway, pray for the repose of the soul of Aasiya Hassan and for the motherless children.