Blogger Is Hacked To Death In Bangladesh After Promoting Secular Thought
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/12/406148024/blogger-is-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh-after-promoting-secular-thought?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
For the third time this year, a blogger has died after a brutal attack
on a street in Bangladesh. The writer Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by
men wielding machetes. He wrote for the same blog founded by Avijit
Roy, a Bangladeshi-American who died in a similar attack in February.
CNN reports, "Das, 32, was killed Tuesday morning as he left his home
on his way to work at a bank, police in the northeastern Bangladeshi
city of Sylhet said." Das had written for Mukto-Mona ("Free
Thinkers"), which posts articles about secular and rationalist topics
along with discussion and debates over science, atheism, and Islam.
Recent English-language posts have headlines such as "Does Islam Need
Reforming?" and "Bangladesh: Where words cost lives."
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