There are many scandals relating to ethics and the morality of individuals, even leaders, in our society. A recent news story posted in the Justice section of CNN's website discusses an astounding and devastating story relating to a New York TV executives brutal decapitation of his wife of many years. After a long and drawn out 3 week trial, a New York jury found Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan guilty of second-degree murder for the beheading of his wife today. The ironic part of the story is that Hassan founded a TV network (Bridges TV) aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes in 2004. Hassan supposedly hoped that the network would balance negative portrayals of Muslims, following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
To give some background on the story, in February 2009, Hassan went to a police station in Buffalo, NY and told officers that his wife was dead. Supposedly, on the day she died, Aasiya Hassan (his wife), had agreed to take some of her husband's clothes to his office, after he had chosen to move out of their home, due to his wife proposing a divorce 6 days before. According to sources, the couple's marriage was "sad and unhealthy" and Hassan's wife had threatened to embarrass Hassan and take away his children. The day she went to drop his clothes off at his office, Hassan was not supposed to be there, but of course he was and at this time chose to "viciously kill and desecrate" his wife. Both of his children testified that their father was violent in the past and Hassan had no real argument as to how his wife was killed. As a result, Hassan was found guilty and awaits sentencing.
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While Hassan is not the most prestigious of leaders, he is still an executive for a TV station that has been in existence since 2004 in the U.S. This story takes the question of scandal and ethics to the next level and is truly gut-wrenching to think about. Please post your thoughts and comments on this terrible tragedy below.
News article from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/07/new.york.beheading/index.html
-Josh Dlabal
I believe that this is a horrible tragedy. No company should ever have a leader like this guiding their company to what they want, success. This shows the true transparency of this individual and his terrible actions. I hope that he is no longer a leader at this company, let alone working at any company in the United States.
ReplyDeletePosted by: Genise Logston
I agree with Genise that this is a tragedy. I do not feel that Hassan was an ethical leader at all. I understand that he was not one of the most prestigious leaders of our time, but it is still sad to see that there are people out there that would do such a thing. Obviously his wife was trying to break through the glass ceiling and better herself for her children and for her and he was threatened by that. I just do not understand what could go through a persons mind to do something like kill another person. Everyones life has its own obsticals, but each day is a new day. Also i believe that everything happends for a reason, maybe this happened because he was an abusive man and needed to be put in jail. Its horrible that he had to take his own wifes life before someone realized this, but at least he will be in jail now.
ReplyDelete-Kayla Samolinski