1. When Is The Aggressor Not The Aggressor? When He Has Been Forced to Defend Himself and His Lost Honor
On February 12, 2009, immediately after stabbing his unarmed wife 40 times with two large hunting knives and then brutally beheading her, he became calm, relieved. For the first time in years, he felt “peaceful.” Only then did he feel “safe from the Evil Dragon Terrorist” which is how he referred to Aasiya Zubair Hassan, the wife he had viciously battered for seven years.
Muzzammil Syed Hassan quietly told the police that he had killed his wife—but he immediately pleaded “not guilty” to second-degree murder. In fact, he told the police and the media what he is now telling the judge, prosecutors and jury in a Buffalo courtroom: that he, not she, was the “abused” and long-suffering spouse.
How is this possible? How can a man with a long and terrible history of physically and psychologically battering three wives and physically and psychologically abusing his children as well—he once punched his 13-year-old son in the nose—say this and believe it with his whole heart?
In pre-trial interviews, Hassan insisted that he suffered immense psychological abuse and humiliation during his seven year marriage to a woman who publicly nurtured a false image as a kinder and more sympathetic woman.
“All abuse happens behind closed doors, thus NO witnesses,” Hassan stated in his most recent letter. “All abuse is psychological, emotional wounds are not visible, thus NO evidence. . . . What a perfect crime! Only the poorly trained abusers use physical violence and get caught, for physical abuse leaves behind evidence.”
In the hour leading up to the murder, Hassan sent Aasiya text messages saying:
I am a good man, Aasiya…a humble and decent man, made some mistakes, please don’t punish me so hard. God likes forgiveness…I have not done anything to hurt you since Sunday…
Like other batterers, he is not merely saying that Aasiya “provoked” him to kill her but that she had been torturing him for seven years: cleverly leaving no marks, while he had been suffering the torments of the damned. Finally, afraid of being exposed—either as a batterer or as a battered spouse, both humiliating possibilities for a leader of the Muslim-American community—he said that he “snapped.” He could take no more. He had to kill her to restore his peace of mind.
And so, he took control.
2. Where Else Have We Heard Such Reasoning?
An Al-Qaeda, Hamas, or Muslim Brotherhood leader will insist that his campaigns of murder and propaganda are really campaigns of “self defense” against the Zionist, infidel, Nazi, Apartheid Enemy. Since their holy Muslim lands (which they define as part of their honor and often as the entire world, which is, psychologically, their missing phantom limb) have been taken and occupied by infidels, Westerners, and Zionists, they must send suicide killers so that what belongs to them is returned, so that they are made whole and no longer humiliated in history.
Thus, Islamist acts of beheading (journalist Daniel Pearl, would-be businessman Nicholas Berg, civil engineer Kenneth Bigley, contractor Eugene Armstrong, engineer Jack Hensley, engineer Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr., etc.), blowing up innocent civilians on aircraft, at cafes, on the streets, at work in the World Trade Center, are not “aggressive” acts, but are, rather, “defensive” acts, desperate attempts to ensure that the impure infidels will flee, so that their Muslim property, purity, and honor can be restored.
Blowing up Israeli civilians is even more an act of “self-defense,” since, as they see it, there are no innocent Israelis, all are complicit in the “genocidal crimes” against the Palestinian and Arab people. Blowing up other Muslim civilians, using children as soldiers—well, some Muslims are not “true” Muslims, some Muslims are working with the enemy infidel, some Muslims are whores—and they all deserve to be killed anyway.
Before we get into Muzzammil’s personal history, we need to understand something about the country he comes from: Pakistan.
3. Where Could Muzzammil Syed Hassan Have Learned That Extreme Violence Towards Women Is Normal, A Man’s God-Given Right?
For the first seventeen years of his life Hassan grew up in Pakistan, where the level of violence towards girls and women was and still is barbarous and quite unbelievable.
In 2009, I received an extraordinary report which documented honor killings in Pakistan. My Pakistani informant, of the SW Community Development Department, in Sind, Pakistan, sent me an unpublished paper in which he describes and explains a murderous Pakistani culture very carefully. He writes:
Women in Pakistan live in fear. They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family. They are killed for supposed ‘illicit’ relationships, for marrying men of their choice, for divorcing abusive husbands. They are even murdered by their kin if they are raped. The truth of the suspicion does not matter — merely the allegation is enough to bring dishonor on the family and therefore justifies the slaying. The lives of millions of women in Pakistan are circumscribed by traditions which enforce extreme seclusion and submission to men. Male relatives virtually own them and punish disobedience with violence.
According to my informant, of all of the honor killings in Pakistan, most go unreported and even more go unpunished.
The isolation and fear of women living under such threats are compounded by state indifference to and complicity in women’s oppression. Police almost invariably take the man’s side in honor killings or domestic murders, and rarely prosecute the killers. Even when the men are convicted, the judiciary ensures that they usually receive a light sentence, reinforcing the view that men can kill their female relatives with virtual impunity. There are few women’s shelters, and any woman attempting to travel on her own is a target for abuse by police, strangers or male relatives hunting for her. For some women suicide appears the only means of escape.
He continues: “In [Pakistani] communities an ‘honor killing’ is considered a just punishment, not a crime. This view is also shared by many Pakistanis who do not belong to tribal societies.”
In these communities:
Male control does not only extend to a woman’s body and her sexual behavior but all of her behavior, including her movements, her language and her actions. In any of these areas, defiance by women translates into undermining male honor and ultimately family and community honor. Severe punishments are reported for bringing food late, for talking back or for undertaking forbidden trips, etc. A man’s honor defiled by a woman’s alleged or real sexual misdemeanor or other defiance is only partly restored by killing her. He also has to kill the man allegedly involved. Since [the woman] is murdered first, the [man] often hears about it and flees, aided by the fact that unlike the woman, he is both familiar with the world outside the house and can move freely in it. But [men] who escape will not be able to return to normal life. Nobody will give such a man shelter; he remains on the run until he and his family are ready to negotiate with the victim, the man whose honour the [man] defiled. The balance is restored by negotiating compensation for damages.
Fantastic article, Phylis!
Deflection of responsibility seems to be an all-pervasive facet of the Muslim collective psyche. It goes all the way back to Muhammad and his declaration that the Banu Qurayzah had "declared war" by their refusal to accede to his demands that they surrender their fortifications and submit.
As for Muzzammil's feelings of betrayal, these stem from the fact that women are so thoroughly dis-empowered by Islamic tradition that their only entry into respectability is through their male offspring. Thus, while they turn their daughters in beasts of burden, they pamper and spoil their sons in excess. The result is an adult male mindset that expects the world to cater to his every whim as occurred throughout childhood…and when this doesn't happen, he feels betrayed by the world and flies into a rage. This is the root of the "angry Muslim street."
Exaxtly! Muhammadan Men have no identity of their own. Their mind is still controlled by the same demon that made MUHD believe he was superior to all especially women. It has such a stronghold on the male ego giving them a false sense of power and feeding the narcissistic testosterone driven male ego, it blinds to truth
I wonder what the Persians and those further West were like before and/or would have been like if not the Arab culturally centric Islam was introduced. ?????
My guess is – like predominantly Buddhist east Asia and Hindu India – they would have had no problem acculturating themselves to modern ethics and mores. It's a dark tragedy visited upon those peoples who succumbed to the Muslim conquests…one being repeated today in western Europe.
Google up Greek,and Persian history.Both empires were overtaken by muslin armies.Lot of what has emerged is of tribal origin- from pre moslem times-Islam is not all that old,and most converted or were forced to convert-all since 622 AD..Google up the History of Jihad.-good bedtime reading,and help sort out world history.
Poor Mo. Emulating the perfect man (Mad Mo) isn't easy. Especially when those pesky kafir make following the gutter cult of islam so difficult. If only they could understand islam. Mo can't even get dougie hooper at the terrorist supporting and hamas linked cair to return his calls anymore.
On Friday, nine of the jurors wore Buffalo SABRES jerseys. The connection is obvious, and we may hear some seething and whining from the stapled doug by the end of the day. The Sabres may be a local sports franchise in Buffalo, but the wearing of sabres is out of respect for the faith of the head choppers, and a muted announcement to the court that they are violating mo's civil rights by charging him for killing the whore that was abusing him so horribly.
Allahu snackbar!!
Mo, the pious muslim on trial for prtecting his honor was mocked by the jury on Friday when several of them wore Buffalo Sabres jerseys in court. The judge brushed it off with the following:
"I'm detecting a certain theme," the otherwise taciturn Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk told the jurors as he began the 13th day of the murder trial amid some gentle laughter.
"Welcome back, please be seated," the judge told the jurors as he quipped that their fashion statement must be linked to the new ownership of the National Hockey League franchise.
The truth is that they were making fun of mo and islam by wearing pictures of islamically approved methods of murder. And this kafir judge let them get away with it. Good for them!!! Maybe today we'll hear some seething and whining from the terrorist supporters at the terrorist supporting organization, cair.
Allahu snackbar.
For all the things that the author is accusing Mo of, the main thing to remember is he's a muslim, and was acting as a muslim "man" is expected to behave. He did nothing wrong through the lens of islam. He is approaching "the perfect man" in the gutter cult of islam.
Why does everyone persist in calling them “honor killings?”
Your honor is what you think of yourself,while reputation is what others think about you. What happened here sounds like he was worried about others thought about himself.
I would say, put him in prison, because murder is murder, no matter what the reason.
once again we see the links between islam and the Western Left. "Victimhood" is now a legitimate university discipline which, when properly "taught", allows those so miseducated to find sympathy with the victims of islam. A closed circle of "reasoning" which thereby allows both muslim and leftist to find common cause.
Answer To Mid-East "Victimhood" in America (and the West): Don't come!
Answer to American "Victimhood" in the Mid-East or other Moslem dominated area: Don't go!
"Mo" Syed Hassan shows all the characteristics of a sociopath.
Wait until the Leftists find out that Muslims want to kill all homosexuals!
Left will still be clueless who is slitting their throats!!
They know, just as NOW knows; but the Christians are just as bad if not worse, don't ya know, with their imposition of their beliefs on the "enlightened". If you don't believe me, ask Rosie O'Donnell!
They won't care-neither leftists as a whole or the pink swastika crowd, and this is why: both muslims and homosexuals are part of the same coalition. These coalition members share the goal of looting and destroying civilization from within. You see this with "identity" blacks voting for democrats who aid illegals, the same illegals who fill the ranks of LA gangs who are in the process of ethnic cleansing LA of blacks.
Right,and establish Bacca Bazi in it's place
The left is willing to sacrifice anything, including their own beliefs (and apparently homosexuals), for "the cause."
Great article Phylis!!1 You think , you can get it published in our MSM, likes of NYTimes, LATimes, Chicago Tribune,.. LOL .. I know they will never ever go along with it.
Only Muslims have this weird notion of "honor" which gives them the right to control women in their lives, as Mo/allah taught them in Quran. Any deviation by their women that disregards their authority over them enrages them to the point of killing them.
You write:"….to punish those who have tarnished his image teaches us all something about the mind of an Islamist jihadist."
I would kind of disagree here with you and replace the last two words, "Islamist jihdist" by simply one word "Muslim" as all Muslims are afflicted with this deadly moronic disease of "honor", and of course all Muslims are Islamists and jihadis, jihad being obligatory to all Muslims!!!
It is well known that the serial killer, or rapist, or the abuser of whatever kind, get his kicks and pleasure in doing the brutal act. This has been well documented.
The reason he became calm and relieved is because he has finally, at long last, fulfilled his greatest fantasy. He took it to the extreme limit and now feels the 'pleasure' of having done so.
The reality is, he would most probably do it again, somewhere down the line if allowed to stay free. Or he could return to muslim lands and continue without questions or interference from any justice department. There it is his 'right' to be a woman killer.
By the way, nothing like hearing it from the horse's mouth.
The 'approved' protocol for wife beating: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=13§ion=0&am…
What you have so well pointed out, is the infestation of a human mind by a virus called Islam, created by the Words of Mohammed.
As Guardians of Democracy we are in total War, against this viral infestation in our Home, the World.
For a starter, check "Ban Islam" petition http://www.petitiononline.com/MYSTIC/petition.htm…
Truly unbelievable. A man stabbing his unarmed wife 40 times with two large hunting knives and then brutally beheading her. 40 times! This was no civilized human being, but a savage mind of the lowest order. Even in our wildest and most untamed jungles, such savagery takes place for food, and only by mindless creatures. Even a pea-brained pit-bull, trained to kill, will eventually stop. But this creature with his "two large hunting knives" stabbed a woman 40 times!
It proves that the clash of civilizations will end only when we disconnect from our dependence on such cultures. We should disconnect now, and strengthen ties with Judeo-Christian nations threatened by them. Otherwise we will be seeing more of this on our home turf. We have enough to worry about with out Souther war zones which are also bleeding.
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