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Founder
of Muslim TV station sentenced for wife's beheading
Thursday March 10, 2011 08:01:29 AM,
DPA
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New
York/Los Angeles: The founder of a TV station aimed at
improving the image of Muslims in the US has been found guilty of
beheading his wife and was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in
prison.
Pakistan-born Muzzammil Hassan and his wife Aasiya founded Bridges
TV in 2004 when US attitudes towards Muslims were at an all-time
low following the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the
country's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
They hoped that by portraying the positive culture and heritage of
the more than eight million Muslims living in the US, they would
counter the negative stereotypes that were prevalent among many
Americans.
But the ambitious couple ended up only reinforcing those
stereotypes when their marriage fell apart.
In February 2009, five days after Aasiya informed Hassan that she
would seek a divorce, the TV executive went to a police station in
Buffalo New York and told police that his wife was dead.
Police found her decapitated body and the long knife used to kill
her in Hassan's office. Hassan admitted to killing her but claimed
that he had acted in self-defence.
"I deeply regret that things came down to what they came down to,"
Hassan said in court Wednesday according to BuffaloNews.com.
In Wednesday's sentencing in Erie County Court in upstate New
York, Judge Thomas Franczyk said he had no doubt that the murder
was a "premeditated act of violence".
"Justice demands that you receive nothing less than the maximum
possible sentence," the judge said, according to the report.
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