Mr Das wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona, a website once moderated by Avijit Roy, himself hacked to death in February...
Sara Hossain, a lawyer and human rights activist in Dhaka, has told the BBC Mr Das and Mr Roy were on a list of targets. "They've always believed and written very vocally in support of free expression and they've very explicitly written about not following any religion themselves," she told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme. "These last two have been part of a blog called Mukto-Mona (Free Mind), which is about free thinking and is about explicitly taking on religious fundamentalism and particularly Islamic religious fundamentalism. Their names have been on lists of identified targets."
May 12, 2015
Another Bangladesh blogger is hacked to death.
"Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet," BBC reports.
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Dear God.
Is there a way to separate the many, many instances of violence practiced by Muslims who profess to be motivated by Islam, from Islam itself?
The silence of "nice Muslims" isn't disapproval, it's complicity.
Obviously they brought it upon themselves. I assume later today journalists of the left (except Chris Hayes) and FOX will join hands in condemning Mr. Das for his irresponsible provocation.
Nothing like a good death-hacking to enlighten the world as to the glory of God.
Religion of pieces apparently.
It used to be called East Pakistan for a reason.
"The innocent Muslims are no more to blame than innocent Americans are to blame for the crimes done in their names."
I missed the part where the "police shootings" we're done in the name of say Roman Catholicism, or because the victims were an affront to the American nation.
"In your efforts to condemn ALL Muslims"
What crap !
Muslims have shown that they are not to be trusted since the "lone wolf" keeps appearing.
If they would do something within the religion, it might be possible to accept their good will but they don't. It is not at all analogous to the cop killing which, as we know, involves one segment of society.
Is it that the only good Muslims are apostates?
Dog bites man.
"The innocent Muslims are no more to blame than innocent Americans are to blame for the crimes done in their names."
Thank you, thank you. We are absolved from White Guilt with that brilliant insight.
The use of violence is commanded in the Koran. Those commands are not subject to change or abrogation. Muslims will NOT publicly condemn those teaching of their Allah (Not the same Entity as for Arabic speaking Christians).
The right to free speech and a free press is protected here by the "right to keep and bear arms"---Until Democrats abolish it.
I'm guessing this was probably some of those Christians the President is always so concerned about.
Or maybe the Montana militia?
Tea Party?
Muslims will NOT publicly condemn those teaching of their Allah
Unless they themselves want a Fatwah placed on their head.
Still, condemning a killing is not prohibited by Mohammed.
Not even principled tolerance.
Yesterday NPR had a piece on Buddhists persecuting Muslims in Burma. It was one of those narrative driven stories to counterbalance the other prevailing narrative. But NPR omitted Burma’s centuries of bloody conflict between these groups. Muslim, Hindi, Buddhist, Christian conflict has been going on for centuries; the only thing that is new is moving the battle space to the America’s.
Westboro Baptist Church is in Bangladesh too?
What these are are lynchings. But calling them that would be "punching down" I guess, and all the right thinking people don't blame them.
Who needs these people who fetishize freedom on this planet anyways?
The thing that most people don't realize, is how violent the world is.
People don't remember that writing things on paper could get you hacked into four sections and your head placed on a spike.
If you really feel that you have a social cause, the first thing you need to do is form an Army.
Otherwise, go with the flow, or became a suicide bomber.
Please don't respond to the commenter I always delete.
If you do, I have to remove your comment as well.
If you really feel that you have a social cause, the first thing you need to do is form an Army.
That's the thing about Islam, it's like Machiavelli, say what you like about it, it has an undeniable real-world logic.
God wills it!
Is it too early to blame Pamela Gellar somehow?
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