Not Just Another Domestic Homicide

Sadly it's not all that rare for violence to occur when husbands and wives divorce.

But it is rare that a husband beheads his wife.

Welcome to the new cultural paradigm in Buffalo, N.Y. where The Buffalo News reports that a prominent Muslim is now facing second degree murder charges for beheading his estranged wife.

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.

Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.

Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

Not sure how that "positive light" thing is working out.

The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.

"Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.

How long will it be before the hue and cry arises from the Islamic excuse lobby (and its progressive friends in the cultural sensitivity crowd) that Mr. Hassan should be judged by Shari'a standards and not those of the State of New York?