A non-Islam theory of the Buffalo beheading

David B. writes:

This Vdare blog article by Brenda Walker has this quote from the press, “While he and his wife were happy to be in the United States, they were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims, and particularly how this perception might affect their children.”

The translation is that despite being financially very successful, the Pakistani banker resented the culture of the country he was getting rich in. When his wife wanted a divorce, he cuts her head off. Today I suppose the banker is complaining of how he is being portrayed.

LA replies:

Or it might be played like this. I can see this editorial in the New York Times:

Cultural assumptions that kill

In a further indication of the costs of our society’s mean-spirited refusal to welcome immigrants with open arms, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant became so distraught over Americans’ negative stereotypes of Muslims that he cut his wife’s head off.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 14, 2009 11:04 AM | Send