Asma Firfirey: "Monster Decapitated My Sister"

'Monster decapitated my Sister'
Beheading may have been heard on phone in S.Africa

Updated: Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009, 12:26 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009, 6:31 PM EST

* WIVB.com with Reports from News24, Die Berger

(Aasiya Hassan on the cover of a recent issue of "Azizah" magazine. The caption ironically reads, "SEEKING SANCTUARY")

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Several South African media outlets are reporting that the sister of Aasiya Zubair Hassan may have been on the cell phone with her sister during her beheading at the Orchard Park offices of Bridges TV.

Hassan was brutally murdered on the premises of the Bridges TV network, an English Islamic cable network started in 2004 with the mission of improving the image of Muslims in America.

News 24 in Cape Town reports that Asma Firfirey was on the phone with her sister when she heard the couple arguing and her sister Aasiya struggling for air. When she called back a receptionist told her that everyhing was okay.

Muzzammil Hassan, 44, the founder and CEO of Bridges Television Network, turned himself into police on Thursday night, telling police that his wife was dead. Hassan had just been served with divorce papers and ordered to stay out of the couple's Orchard Park home.

The victim's sister, AsmaFirfirey told News 24 in Cape Town, "I can only imagine how scared and emotional she must have been before she died."

Firfirey is concerned about the welfare of the couple's young children, Rania, 4, and Danyal, 6, who are now being cared for by a colleague. A court proceeding was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to discuss the matter.

The news reports also state that when Aasiya visited South Africa last May 'she had been assaulted so badly she had to pay R30,000 (aprox. $2929) in medical fees.

Aasiya Zubair Hassan was 37 years old and reportedly had met her husband on the Internet. This was the third marriage for her husband, Mo Hassan.

Firefirey calls her brother-in-law 'the fat man with evil eyes'.

Muzzammil (Mo) Hassan is slated to appear at a felony court hearing Wednesday afternoon.

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