Flashback: Founder of Muslim TV station who beheaded wife talks about “understanding”

Grim irony circa 2004 via TV Newser, made doubly creepy by the cameo from victim Aasiya Hassan. The deed was done right there in the Bridges TV studio, evidently while Hassan was on the phone with her sister:

Firfirey said she and her husband, Amier, 49, were talking to her sister, Aasiya, 37, on the telephone last Thursday, when they heard her tell her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, to calm down and that they could talk the following day about the divorce.

Then they heard sounds that sounded like her sister was struggling to breathe.

Below you’ll find him wishing for a “better understanding” between American and Islamic culture. Based on NOW’s reaction, I’d say he got his wish. Exit quotation: “We’ve been told that there’s no place for that kind of action in their faith, but I wouldn’t say that there’s anything that’s being completely ruled out at this point.” Click the image to watch.

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