Looking at the photo atop this post on Tim Blair’s blog, you see what appears to be a happy couple in their late-30s or early-40s, living near Buffalo, NY. She’s certainly attractive, with long dark hair, expensively coifed. He’s a little on the heavy side, obviously from too many expensive meals out, but his loosely-cut Brooks Brothers blue blazer, floral tie and the long points on the white collar of his business shirt help to downplay his girth. Who wouldn’t want to have a couple that looks like this as their neighbor?
Then you read the caption—or as Hot Air puts it:
Man who started TV network to improve Muslims’ image beheads wife
And naturally, as with the “honor killings” in Dallas in late 2007, don’t expect much from the local media exploring the root causes of such barbarism. Or as Michelle Malkin rhetorically asks, “Do you think this will get as much attention from the MSM as, say, the Ted Haggard scandal or Pat Robertson’s Teletubbies remarks?”
Instead, expect such lame media quotes as this:
“Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,” Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.
It’s Anthony Burgess’ world; we’re just living (and dying) in it.
Update: Related thoughts from Roger Kimball.
More: Mark Steyn spots a “Headless body in gutless press” and, pondering the entirely expected lack of curiosity from the legacy media, quips, “Just asking, but are beheadings common in western New York?”
I am appalled at this death, as are many others here in western NY. I suspect that the crash of the jet in Clarence about 4 hours later pushed this story from front and center to the back burner. It needs the light of day, but please give us a chance to get our breath back after the other event of Thursday.
Yeah, what with the plane crash, the front page is just toooo crowded to play up New York’s first Muslim-style homicide.
So remind me is Islam the religion of peace or piece? Inquiring minds want to know.
There may be more to the story here.
Correct me if I am wrong, but you “smite the neck of the unbeliever.” For the believer, other forms of killing are used.
Is this a case of apostasy by the wife?
The press has been willfully blind about the barbarism of Islam and its incompatability with Western Civilization. I sense, however, that the people are beginning to understand the situation. I hope it’s not too late. This cult needs to be banned and expelled. Our immigration laws held that belief in communism rendered one inadmissible to the United States. Perhaps belief in Islam should be treated the same way.
If you’d like to read some comments from apologists for beheading, go to http://www.ihatethemedia.com/muslim-leader-beheads-wife . You won’t belive what some of the people are saying.
Muslims don’t need an excuse for this sort of thing. Honor/shame always seems to trump any of their attempts at assimilation into the West. Once again, it’s the frog and the scorpion.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along …
If certain strains of Christianity condemn homosexuality (let alone condone or perform violence against homosexuals,) or have opinions about the role of women in relation to men which deviate from those of our popular culture, ruled for the last 4 decades by people calling themselves “progressive,” there is not the slightest hesitation to condemn, ridicule and mount a full scale aasualt on the thoughts and words, let alone the deeds of those hwo espouse such things. But we should never link events of this time to the culture that has arisen under Islam.
Murders, domestic violence, occur in all cultures, and are perpetrated by people of all religions. But beheadings? Where do we tend to see that as the preferred method od dispatch? Hmm? But we musn’t judge them. We should only mercilessly judge Christians. That is the only religion that must not be tolerated, must be scorned, attacked and reviled at every turn.
Watch the film “Fitna” online to see that the Koran does specifically proscribe beheading in certain situations. We must wake up.
I’ve read a few articles on this story, and it’s certainly yet another warning signal to us all in regard to Islam. But I want to pause for a moment in regard to the issue of evidence.
So far in the articles I’ve read it’s said that the alleged killer went to the police station and told the police that his wife was dead at their radio station. I haven’t read anywhere that he confessed to the murder.
While I think it is most likely that he did the revolting deed, the evidence we’ve been given so far – at least in what *I’ve* read so far – is circumstantial, not conclusive. It looks extremely bad for the guy, but is it possible that someone in his family or some other Muslim, say, from the Mosque he attends, learned about the wife suing for divorce and took it upon themselves to do an honor-killing, without consulting the husband?
At this early stage, before all the evidence is presented, I think people ought to be mindful about not making the easy assumptions.
While the husband looks like the guilty one, we need a trial and something more substantial and reliable than the first sensational reportings from the media to establish the actual culprit.
But whoever carried out the deed, it sounds another warning siren against Islam, itself.