Aasiya Zubair

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aasiya Zubair, also known as Aasiya Hassan was with her husband Muzzammil Hassan, the founder and owner of Bridges TV, the first American Muslim English-language television network In February 2009, she was found dead, beheaded, at the Bridges TV station after her estranged husband turned himself into a police station and was charged with 2nd degree murder. Some observers regard the murder an honor killing. Marcia Pappas, New York State president of the National Organization for Women told the Buffalo News that "This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women's subordination to men." Zubair was an architect by training. Worried by the negative perceptions of Muslims, she "felt there should be an American Muslim media where her kids could grow up feeling really strong about their identity as an American Muslim" and came up with the idea for Bridges TV