I’m sure that when Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan started his cable channel “Bridges TV” he had only the best of intentions. In fact the entire channel was geared towards rightfully countering Muslim stereotypes. But then he cut his wife’s head off.

I’m also sure that the channel did some excellent work and was well received by the moderate Muslim community, as well as the American public in general. But it really doesn’t help your cause when you’ve had five great years of stereotype-busting programming, only to murder your wife and saw her head off.

Graphic stuff I know, but it’s all true and pretty scary if you ask me. The Jury in Mo’s trial also thought so and took less than an hour to find him guilty of second-degree murder.

The motive for the decapitation seems to stem from the fact that his wife filed for divorce a week earlier. I have heard of this motive before and if honour killing is a fire then divorce seems to be just about the best fuel you can get.

From what I can tell, Mr Hassan is not a very nice man and is as arrogant as they come. He fired four defense lawyers and even had his legal advisor say, in mitigation, that “It ended with ‘Mo’ Hassan in fear of his very life”.

I think the steps he took to quell this fear may have been a bit drastic to be entirely honest.

[I must thank Laurence Caromba…again]

[Source : CNN]