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Title: Attackers hack American blogger to death in Bangladesh
Source: AP
URL Source: [None]
Published: Feb 28, 2015
Author: JULHAS ALAM
Post Date: 2015-02-28 13:47:04 by rlk
Keywords: None
Views: 8616
Comments: 6

Attackers hack American blogger to death in Bangladesh

JULHAS ALAM Feb 27th 2015 5:12AM

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he walked through Bangladesh's capital with his wife, police said Friday.

The attack Thursday night on Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen, occurred on a crowded sidewalk as he and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were returning from a book fair at Dhaka University. Ahmed, who is also a blogger, was seriously injured. It was the latest in a series of attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh in recent years.

A previously unknown militant group, Ansar Bangla 7, claimed responsibility for the attack, Assistant Police Commissioner S.M. Shibly Noman told the Prothom Alo newspaper.

Roy "was the target because of his crime against Islam," the group said on Twitter.

Roy was a prominent voice against religious intolerance, and his family and friends say he had been threatened for his writings.

About 8:45 p.m. Thursday, a group of men ambushed the couple as they walked toward a roadside tea stall, with at least two of the attackers hitting them with meat cleavers, police Chief Sirajul Islam said. The attackers then ran away, disappearing into the crowds.

Two blood-stained cleavers were found after the attack, he said.

Islamic extremism has made few inroads in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people, but there have been a series of similar attacks in recent years blamed on militants.

A divide has become increasingly visible between secular bloggers and conservative Islamic groups, often covertly connected with Islamist parties, with the secularists urging authorities to ban religion-based politics while the Islamists press for blasphemy laws to protect their faith.

Islam is Bangladesh's state religion but the country is governed by secular laws based on British common law, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has repeatedly said she will not give in to religious extremism.

Roy had founded a popular Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind, which featured articles on scientific reasoning and religion.

The website has apparently been shut down since the attack, but Roy defended atheism in a January posting on Facebook, calling it "a rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief."

Anujit Roy, his younger brother, said Roy had returned to the country earlier this month from the U.S. and was planning to go back in March.

In 2013, another blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, who also spoke out against religious extremism, was killed by still-unidentified assailants near his Dhaka home. In 2004, Humayun Azad, a prominent writer and teacher at Dhaka University, was seriously injured in an attack when he was returning from the same book fair.

Baki Billah, a friend of Roy and a blogger, told Independent TV that Roy had been threatened earlier by people upset at his writing.

"He was a free thinker. He was a Hindu but he was not only a strong voice against Islamic fanatics but also equally against other religious fanatics," Billah said.

"We are saddened. We don't know what the government will do to find the killers. We want justice," he said.

Poster's note: Men such as Roy are our hope for the future.

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#1. To: rlk (#0)

"We are saddened. We don't know what the government will do to find the killers. We want justice," he said.

Probably take up 0bama's to ensure terrorism viability within and about any nation. In effect, nothing because of the concept of "multi-culturalism is good."

Pridie.Nones  posted on  2015-02-28   13:53:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pridie.Nones, rlk, All (#1)

In effect, nothing because of the concept of "multi-culturalism is good."

Apparently not in Islam.

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-02-28   14:17:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: SOSO (#2)

Look at the bright side. In a couple of years from now, medical science can reconnect your decapitated head back on your body.

The future is is potentially awesome!

Pridie.Nones  posted on  2015-02-28   14:20:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pridie.Nones (#3)

Look at the bright side. In a couple of years from now, medical science can reconnect your decapitated head back on your body.

The future is is potentially awesome!

Christian head on Islamic body? Or vice versa?

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-02-28   14:22:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: rlk (#0)

Attackers hack American blogger to death in Bangladesh

Why bring your head to the hacker?

Make them filthy 3rd world smelly f****g towel heads travel to our soil for their deed... if they have the balls.

I don't feel sorry for any American (besides our deployed military) that gets kidnapped over in that shithole area of the world and gets killed. Don't expect us to bargin for you. Kiss your asses goodbye.

Chalk it up to a learning experience. Thou shalt not create a target rich atmosphere for ISIS.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-02-28   14:50:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: SOSO (#4)

Christian head on Islamic body? Or vice versa?

When any government argues in favor of "multi-culturalism" concepts that oppose the basic tenets of our own national spirit, who really cares?

Pridie.Nones  posted on  2015-02-28   14:55:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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