February 18, 2009
by Arsalan Iftikhar
Editor’s Note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of www.TheMuslimGuy.com and contributing editor for Islamica Magazine in Washington.
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It is a tragically ironic scenario when a television station dedicated to helping bridge cross-cultural divides becomes the scene of a horrifying murder. But that’s what happened last week.
Aasiya Zubair Hassan, a 37-year-old mother of four was found brutally decapitated inside the television studios of Bridges TV in upstate New York. She had co-founded the cable channel with her husband after September 11th to overcome negative stereotypes associated with Muslims.
Over the years, Bridge TV has succeeded, and transformed itself into a cross-cultural network aimed at fostering, as its website says “a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations.” And most employees were non-Muslim.
But now Ms. Zubair’s husband, Muzzammil Hassan, a 44-year-old Pakistani-American businessman, has been charged with murdering his recently estranged wife.
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