Today, we state clearly that considering apostasy to be a criminal offense in state level in fact is an inexcusable offense. If being religious is someone’s right, then being critical to religion is also one’s right. There is nothing wrong to be critical to any idea or ideology, as CFI aptly put on its Blasphemy day banner – ‘Ideas do not need rights, People do’!So wrote Avijit Roy on his blog Mukto Mona, on September 30, 2013.
Avijit Roy left his home in Atlanta for a speaking engagement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Last Thursday:
As he walked back from the book fair, assailants plunged machetes and knives into Roy and his wife, killing him and leaving her bloodied and missing a finger.
Afterward, an Islamist group "Ansar Bangla-7" reportedly tweeted, "Target Down here in Bangladesh."
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Goddamn you Althouse!
It's getting so you can't tell the perverters of Islam from the vast majority of noble and superior peace lovers who sweetly subject themselves to allah, without a scorecard.
This says it all, especially about the west, doesn't it?
"Avijit was very idealistic," he said. "His understanding was that he wouldn't be killed, that if anyone ever tried to attack him or hated him, that they could just kind of have a chat and he would convince them ... that they could at least have a dialogue."
He never had a chance to. They attacked from behind.
It's high time we wipe these people out.
Why the Islam tag? This was a random machete attack and had nothing to do with Islam.
His wife is Muslim from her name and maybe from Bangladesh. He appears to be of Indian origin from his name. It is doubly alarming if you are some nobody blogger and meet this kind of fate. Do these militants have NSA like database to follow these people? Who else are on that list? This is beyond sick.
Ok..I'm confused...is this a case of workplace violence...or just random violence?
It is doubly alarming if you are some nobody blogger
He's actually fairly well known in the area, and for being a persistent critic of radical Islam.
Nobody get on their high horses here. This happens to Richard Dawkins disciples all the time at the hands of Christians.
"The Crusades !"
Requiescat in pace. Jobs opportunities, please!
This would never have happened if our country hadn't been so cheap and just provided these poor, disaffected Asian yutes with jobs.
And maybe some midnight basketball courts.
Althouse is an Islamophobe, I guess. Islamists? Get real. All supremacist Muslim violence is legitimate. They're brown and Muslim, it's their get of jail free card.
Obama's failure to truthfully talk about this American man's death is disgusting.
Doesn't give one fuck.
110 years ago it was "Perdacaris alive or the Raisuli dead." Of course those were the days of real Presidents.
Religion of Pieces.
Not all religions or moral philosophies are created equal. The religions that separate faith, philosophy and science; God, gods, mortal gods and mortals; that respect individual dignity and intrinsic value; are notable for elevating the human condition and spirit.
He deserves a Darwin Award.
Ugh, that sucks. RIP.
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