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The Buffalo Beheading Case and Other Odd Legal Defensesby David J. Rusin • Jan 29, 2010 at 12:08 pm http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/the-buffalo-beheading-case-and-other-odd-legal
"She made me do it." That pretty much summarizes Muzzammil Hassan's planned legal strategy to explain how his wife Aasiya ended up headless last February in the Buffalo-area studios of Bridges TV, the channel they had founded to counter negative portrayals of Islam:
Just one problem with trying to depict him as a "battered spouse": a former Bridges TV news director describes rail-thin Aasiya as "gentle" and insists that she "never ever heard her disparage" Muzzammil, who is over six feet tall and burly, as seen in numerous online pictures — the last of which shows him receiving an award from CAIR. Two comments: First, it is not just the ferocity of the slaying that suggests an honor murder; we now have the defendant characteristically painting himself as the victim while asserting that his dead wife bears responsibility for her own demise. Second, though laughable by Western standards, Hassan's explanation would assure him of little more than a wrist slap in Islamic courts, which are notorious for leniency toward honor killers. Such are the ways of Shari'a law. Still, Hassan's arguments may not be the strangest offered by a Muslim accused of wrongdoing in the West. Two examples spring to mind:
As for the next example of a bizarre, Islamist-colored legal defense, the smart money is on self-proclaimed 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his taxpayer-financed civilian trial, to employ a variant of the Hassan approach: "the infidel Americans made me do it." Related Topics: Holidays, Honor Crime, Legal, Polygamy David J. Rusin This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. | |||
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