Muzzammil Hassan is the founder of a Muslim oriented New York television station, a station created to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims. So of course, when his wife filed for divorce, Mr Hassan promptly beheaded her in a ritualistic honor killing.
Ok, sure, he claims it wasn’t a ritualistic honor killing. He claims it was just a regular killing, in which he stabbed her 40 times in the face and then beheaded her. He also claims she was abusive and therefore his killing her was justified. Never mind that he didn’t have a shred of evidence to support his claim that his wife abused him, and never mind that the prosecution did, in fact, have evidence to back up their claim that it was in fact Mr Hassan who was the abusive one in the relationship.
Hassan further claims that he was let down by a domestic violence system that refuses to see men as victims. Personally, I’d be more open to that argument if Mr. Hassan wasn’t described as “over 6 feet tall and stocky.” Sure, there are many other forms of abuse than just physical abuse, but do any of them generally require physical retaliation to counter? And anyhow, almost all forms of abuse are either tacitly or expressly backed up by the threat of physical violence–that’s generally why they’re so effective.
So, yeah. Great job countering those negative stereotypes!
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