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The founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes has confessed to beheading his wife, authorities said.

US Muslim TV boss 'beheaded wife'


Aasiya Hassan had recently filed for divorce, alleging domestic violence

The founder of a US Muslim TV network has been charged over the beheading of his wife, media reports say.
Muzzammil Hassan, 44, is accused of second degree murder of Aasiya Hassan, whose body was found last week at the TV station in New York state.
Both Mr Hassan and his wife worked at Bridges TV, a station aimed at countering stereotypes of Muslims.



BBC NEWS | Americas | US Muslim TV boss 'beheaded wife'

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Muadib

Looks like he did all he could to bolster the perception that Islam is anything but a religion of peace...

So let's hear the raghead sympathizers defend this one...

keda

Easy...you're a bigoted racist picking on him because he's a muzzie, and let's not forget infidels are also violent.

Just a bit ironic, though easy enough for inbreds to sidestep, that his marketing ploy which earned lots of support and $$ from the peaceloving Saudis, was to use the station as a mouthpiece - to dispel unpleasant 'myths' about the violent ideology of islam. Also don't forget, this guy was known as a 'moderate'.

Otoh, to be fair the moon brayers could be right, because there is no compelling evidence that he did it because he is a muzzie.

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But this is the official policy, eh?

Dug

I suppose the question is, did he do it on religious grounds or was it a crime of passion, simple murder with no religios overtones.
SECOND degree murder?? WTF.

attaboy

Well they got intent to kill, severing her head, so that is considered murder. To be charged with 1st degree murder the prosecuter has to determine if it was premeditated. Second dgreee murder is if it was spur of the moment as in a fit of rage.

attaboy

Sorry for double posting this news article. I wanted to add it to my topic.






Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil
By MICHAEL CASEY (AP) – 9 hours ago

BANGKOK — There are plenty of needy countries at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming. Then there are the Saudis.

Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign during these and other negotiations — demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels.

That campaign comes despite an International Energy Agency report released this week showing that OPEC revenues would still increase $23 trillion between 2008 and 2030 — a fourfold increase compared to the period from 1985 to 2007 — if countries agree to significantly slash emissions and thereby cut their use of oil. That is the limit most countries agree is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The head of the Saudi delegation Mohammad S. Al Sabban dismissed the IEA figures as "biased" and said OPEC's own calculations showed that Saudi Arabia would lose $19 billion a year starting in 2012 under a new climate pact. The region would lose much more, he said.

"We are among the economically vulnerable countries," Al Sabban told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the talks ahead of negotiations in Copenhagen in December for a treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

"This is very serious for us," he continued. "We are in the process of diversifying our economy but this will take a long time. We don't have too many resources."

Saudi Arabia, which sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, is seeing economic growth slide because of fallout from the global meltdown, but experts still expect the country, flush with cash from oil's earlier price spike last year, to be better able than other nations to cope with the current crisis.

Al Sabban accused Western nations of pursuing an agenda against oil producers, under the guise of protecting the planet.

"Many politicians in the Western world think these climate change negotiations and the new agreement will provide them with a golden opportunity to reduce their dependence on imported oil," Al Sabban said. "That means you will transfer the burden to developing countries, especially to those highly dependent on the exploitation of oil."

Al Sabban said his country wanted a new deal and was not impeding progress in talks as some activists have claimed.

An Arab environmental group IndyACT and the environmental group Germanwatch released a report Thursday accusing Saudi Arabia of blocking key elements of the negotiations. Among their tactics, the groups said, was slowing negotiations by insisting that the economic woes of oil producers be included in the text.

"Despite the variability in the region, the current Arab position is mainly focused around protecting the oil trade rather than saving the planet form the adverse impacts of climate change," said Wael Hmaidan, the executive director of IndyACT.

Most countries have agreed that any new pact should include provisions to avoid temperature increases of more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels — the threshold at which most scientists say serious climate change will ensue.

That would require emissions cuts from industrial countries of 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, far above the 15 to 23 percent cuts rich countries have offered so far. It would also require developing countries to scale back their emissions.

Both rich and poor countries are counting on a transition to a low carbon economy as a key component of meeting their reductions, a move that would require them to away from fossil fuels and toward renewables like solar, wind and hydro power.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Associated Press: Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil

attaboy

Guns and grenades for Somali Ramadan quiz winners




Sat Oct 17, 11:43 am ET
KISMAYO, Somalia (AFP) – No luxury cruise but a ticket to jihad was the prize for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.


"The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is to encourage them to participate in the ongoing holy war against the enemies of Allah in Somalia," Sheikh Abdullahi Alhaq said at a ceremony late Friday.


The radio-broadcast quiz organised by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab organisation in the southern Somali city of Kismayo lasted throughout Ramadan, which ended last month.


Five neighbourhoods of the port city entered the competition, which consisted mainly of questions on science, culture and the Koran.


The winners -- a team from Farjano district -- were given a first prize consisting of one AK-47 assault rifle, two hand grenades, an anti-tank landmine and office supplies at a ceremony attended by hundreds of residents.


"The team in the first place gets the weapons and office equipment worth upward of 1,000 dollars," Sheikh Abdullahi Alhaq said, sparking cheers and applause in the crowd.


"It was a wonderful event because I have never seen students being rewarded with weapons as a result of an education competition", Mohamed Hersi, a Kismayo trader who attended the ceremony, told AFP.


The Shebab and an alliance of local Islamist factions seized control of Kismayo -- one of the country's main ports -- more than a year ago and imposed a strict form of Sharia, banning sports, DVDs and Western clothes.


The quiz show's runners-up had to settle for an AK-47 and ammunition.


Guns and grenades for Somali Ramadan quiz winners - Yahoo! News

DaffyDuck

Yep, this stuff just writes itself.