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Buffalo, New York – AP: “Psychiatric defense likely in NY wife beheading”

Buffalo, New York – AP: “Psychiatric defense likely in NY wife beheading”
— AP reports:
— “A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.
— “Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is scheduled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan’s attorney, who made his plans known during a pretrial conference Friday.”
— “‘Extreme emotional disturbance is not an insanity defense,’ attorney James Harrington said afterward. ‘It’s related to the state of mind of the person at the time.'”

Maryland: 2 teens charged with hate crime – “KKK” (Ku Klux Klan) vandalism on black church bus

Hometown Annapolis reports:
2 teens charged with hate crime — Spray painted KKK on Shady Side church bus
— “Two 15-year-old boys perpetrated a hate crime last week on a predominately black church in Shady Side, county police said yesterday.”
— “The boys, who police did not identify, confessed this week that they broke into a bus Sept. 10 parked outside St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church and spray painted the letters “KKK” the acronymn for the Ku Klux Klan, on a back window, police said.”
— “After consulting with prosecutors, police on Wednesday then charged each boy with one count each of destruction of property and hate crime.
— “Several county and community leaders yesterday denounced the boy’s alleged activities, saying the teens apparent bias against African American’s is not indicative of how the rest of the county’s residents feel.”

Dallas: Mother of Slain Girls Wants Justice for Daughters — Amina and Sara Said in “Honor Killing”

Mother Of Slain Girls Wants Justice For Daughters — Amina and Sara Said in “Honor Killing”
— CBS 11 TV reports:
— “An honor killing.  That’s how the mother of two girls murdered in their father’s taxicab last year describes their deaths.”
— “Amina and Sara Said’s father, Yasser Said, is wanted for capital murder for allegedly shooting them 11 times on New Year’s Night 2008.”
— “‘Justice needs to be served for Amina and Sara,’ Patricia Owens said in an exclusive interview with us today.  ‘I’m here to get the word out on honor killing and justice for Amina and Sara.'”
— “And, referring to her ex-husband, she said, ‘I want him to be caught; I want him to be punished for what he did to the girls.  They did not deserve that.'”

— Phyllis Chesler: “Mother of Dead Dallas Girls Calls Their Murder An ‘Honor Killing'”

Sarah and Amina Said - Killed in Dallas, Texas
Sarah and Amina Said – Killed in Dallas, Texas

Update – December 2014: Yaser Said is still at large, as a FBI Top Ten Fugitive, at the present time the FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest
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U.N. General Assembly President from Libya Opposes Decriminalization of Gays “As A Muslim”

Inner City Press reports on opening of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly with a press conference by its new president, Ali Abdussalam Treki, a Libyan diplomat, who opposes decriminalization of homosexuality.

— Treki quoted as stating:
— “[T]hat matter is very sensitive, very touchy… As a Muslim, I am not in favor of it… it is not accepted by the majority of countries. My opinion is not in favor of this matter at all. I think it’s not really acceptable by our religion, our tradition.  It is not acceptable in the majority of the world. And there are some countries that allow that, thinking it is a kind of democracy… I think it is not”

Sydney Morning Herald report