What Is This World Coming To?

Britain’s politicians care so much about constitutional protections for human rights that they have two sets of them–the centuries-old traditions laid out by parliament and precedent and the newfangled European Convention on Human Rights, written into British law in 1998. Neither of these stopped Britain from becoming the first European Union country to bar an elected European legislator from its territory for his political opinions on February 12. Read the rest of this entry »

Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago.  He became a successful banker in Buffalo, NY, but he was upset by what he called ‘negative perceptions of Islam’.

Hassan and his wife decided to start “Bridges TV”.   Hassan’s wife challenged him to start it.

“I had no background in television. I didn’t know anything about TV. Her comment was, ‘you have an M.B.A. (masters degree in business) why don’t you write a business plan?’”

And so he did. He quit his job at the bank and for the next two to three years worked almost non-stop in developing an English language television network that offers news and entertainment for Muslims.

Mr. Hassan hopes Bridges TV lives up to its name by uniting American Muslims and by helping non-Muslims overcome the negative images they may have of both Muslims and Islam.

After having dedicated his life to improving the negative images held of Muslims in America, his wife filed for divorce.

So he cut her head off.

But Hasan wasn’t totally unsuccessful.  I feel better about Islam. Before, I thought I might have been too hard on it.   I feel better knowing I haven’t been.