Atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh. Third one this year.

[truebrit71]

Last edited Tue May 12, 2015, 12:46 PM - Edit history (1)

https://news.vice.com/article/masked-men-hack-another-atheist-bangladeshi-blogger-to-death?utm_source=vicenewsfb

Because defending imaginary cloud beings from a blogger is the most important thing to focus on in that country right now....

Oh, and I'm sure this too had nothing to do with religion either....

[trotsky]

1. Nothing at all to do with religion.

I'm sure they wanted his land. Or something.

[NeoGreen]

3. Maybe he had a nice...

...boat...or something...

Maybe...

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Is this a test?

Are you trying to see how many people actually check out links? :rolf:

But regarding an atheist who was hacked to death, I am sure that it had nothing to do with religion. Stop being so negative. It is hard for me to even fathom it being that important to "defend" your religion that you would have to kill someone who disagrees.

[PeaceNikki]

4. I caught that earlier and meant to tell the OP but distracted by something shiny.

[truebrit71]

5. Well you obviously passed...

Updated...thanks for the heads-up!

[RussBLib]

6. if they are so proud of their filthy religion, why wear masks?

...what are you assholes ashamed of? You should be reveling in your ability to "please" your bloodthirsty god!

Come out come out wherever you are and let us take a good look at your murderous faces.

[beam me up scottie]

7. No, this has NOTHING to do with religion:

Roy was an atheist and had written a book titled The Virus of Faith, which likened religious extremism to an infectious disease. He had come to Bangladesh in February to promote the book during an annual literary festival in Dhaka when he was killed on February 26.

Umar claimed AQIS was also responsible for the deaths of the "blasphemers" Mohammad Shakil Auj, an Islamic scholar shot dead in the city of Karachi in Pakistan last year, the Pakistani blogger Aniqa Naz, who was reportedly killed in a road accident in Pakistan in 2012, and Bangladeshi blogger Rajib Haider, who was killed in a machete attack in Dhaka in February 2013. Roy and Haider were also involved in the Gonojagoron Moncho movement.

After Haider's murder in 2013, the Bangladesh police arrested several suspects, who they claimed were members of a violent Bangladeshi Islamist group called Ansarullah Bangla. The group was also blamed for a number of similar assaults in which the victims survived, including another in January 2013 on prominent blogger Asif Mohiuddin.

They're even trying to tie it to politics with this comment:

At least five bloggers have been attacked by Islamists in Bangladesh since 2013 when after another hardline group, Hefazat-e-Islam, publicly sought the execution of atheists who organized protests against the rise of political Islam, reported AFP.[/i ]

[mountain grammy]

8. Because, if they don't like the message

they kill the messenger, all in the name of whatever god of the week is guiding the fanatic.