{"id":7660,"date":"2010-03-05T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2010-03-05T19:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:45:56","slug":"in-saner-times-this-headline-would-have-been-comical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/in-saner-times-this-headline-would-have-been-comical\/","title":{"rendered":"In saner times this headline would have been comical\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Religion not a factor in wife beheading, judge rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Considering a Muslim did the beheading, it isn\u2019t humorous \u2013 merely credulity stretching.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/religion_not_factor_in_wife_beheading_kbgdVL1zGftpseMBDI4r4J\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The founder of an Islam-oriented television station who is accused of beheading his wife is due in a Buffalo courtroom for proceedings in advance of his murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Muzzammil \u201cMo\u201d Hassan is tentatively scheduled to stand trial later this month for the death of his wife, Aasiyah Hassan, last year.<\/p>\n<p>Pretrial motions are scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan\u2019s attorney plans a defense that includes claims that Hassan was abused by his wife and emotionally out of control. But prosecutors are fighting the use of a psychiatric defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan-born Hassans started Bridges TV in 2004, in part to dispel negative Muslim stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Muzzammil Hassan was served divorce papers shortly before his wife\u2019s slaying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The worry here is, if Hassan is found guilty and it turns out &#8211; perish the thought &#8211; that it <em>does <\/em>have something to do with the Religion of Peace, there could be a terrible backlash against Muslims: someone might even say something rude.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion not a factor in wife beheading, judge rules. Considering a Muslim did the beheading, it isn\u2019t humorous \u2013 merely credulity stretching. From the NY Post: BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The founder of an Islam-oriented television station who is accused of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/in-saner-times-this-headline-would-have-been-comical\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}