Shhh.

[LiberalAndProud]

http://www.dw.de/al-qaedas-south-asia-branch-says-it-killed-atheist-bangladeshi-blogger/a-18426698

Al Qaeda's South Asia branch says it killed atheist Bangladeshi blogger

Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy, according to US monitoring group. The US citizen was hacked to death in Dhaka two months ago, allegedly for his secular writings.

Asim Umar, the leader of Al Qaeda in the India Subcontinent (AQIS), said in a video on Monday that his organization killed atheist Bangladeshi blogger, Avijit Roy, according to SITE, a US website that monitors extremist groups.

The AQIS leader also claimed responsibility for the assassination of a number of other "blasphemers" in the Muslim-majority South Asian country.

Forty-year-old Roy and his 36-year-old wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, were walking near Dhaka University on February 26 when they were attacked by unidentified assailants carrying machetes.

Washiqur Rahman was attacked with machetes near his home in the capital Dhaka on Monday, March 30. The 27-year-old blogger was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the doctors pronounced him dead.

Bangladeshi bloggers pay the price of upholding secularism

Blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu was brutally hacked to death this morning… just 460 meters (500 yards) from his home in Dhaka's Begunbari area," deputy police commissioner Wahidul Islam said.

"They hacked him in his head and neck with big knives and once he fell on the ground, they then hacked his body," he added.

Rahman was an atheist blogger who wrote under the pen name Kutshit Hasher Chhana, meaning Ugly Duckling, on Facebook. There he posted his thoughts on religious fundamentalism, fellow writer, Asif Mohiuddin, told news agency AFP via Facebook from Berlin.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Dhaka on Friday to denounce the murder of a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin hacked to death with machetes after he allegedly received threats from Islamists

Rahman is the fifth writer to be attacked in Bangladesh since 2004. Last month, another Bangladeshi atheist writer, blogger and government critic Avijit Roy was killed in the capital. In early 2013, Rajib Hyder, another liberal blogger, was killed in the same way.

http://www.dw.de/bangladeshi-bloggers-pay-the-price-of-upholding-secularism/a-18349725

"I don't think one particular sect is more prone to violence than others. Do you?"

[beam me up scottie]

1. .

No words.

[PeaceNikki]

2. My heart breaks for his loved ones.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Things that make you go hmmmmm

There 1.6 billion Muslims in the world.
A survey reported that between 15% and 20% supported the terrorists.
20% of 1.6 billion is 320 million. More terrorist supporters than there are people in the United States.

The majority of Muslims are peaceful, but how relevant is the silent majority if you have a large enough active minority?

(I may get banned as a racist for posting an obvious question, but oh well. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. And I see being a Muslim as a choice of belief system, not a race, so it's not racism to point out that a particular belief system is just plain evil.)