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Read his blogs, it was a shock

A prominent writer with a known disdain for religion was hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday. Avijit Roy was leaving a large, national book fair with his wife when the two were attacked by assailants wielding machetes. His wife, a blogger, suffered a blow to the head and is in critical condition.

Roy, who lived in the United States for fear of just this sort of attack, was aware of the risks he faced by returning to Bangladesh to sell his most recent book, Biswasher Virus or “The Virus of Faith” at a the book fair.
“As soon as the book was released, it rose to the top of the fair’s best-seller list,” he wrote in an forthcoming article to be published by the secular periodical Free Inquiry. “At the same time, it hit the cranial nerve of Islamic fundamentalists. The death threats started flowing to my e-mail inbox on a regular basis. I suddenly found myself a target of militant Islamists and terrorists.”
Roy concluded the piece, “If one thing is certain, it is that the virus of faith is dangerously real.”
He was no doubt aware of the “dangerously real” nature of the threats Islamist organizations and individuals made against him. Roy ran a blog called Mukto-Mona, or “free mind” where he and others wrote extensively on secularism and what they believed the perils of religious extremism. He was well aware of the risks such work posed in Bangladesh — a country where several prominent secular, atheist writers have been attacked in recent years.
Rajib Haider, another Bangladhesi atheist blogger, was hacked to death by attackers in 2013. That same year, at least 27 people were killed in clashes between police and Islamist hardliners who called for anti-blasphemy laws to be enacted in Bangladesh. In 2004, Humayun Azad, a secular writer and professor was attacked by militants while leaving the same book fair Roy and his wife had attended. Azad died from his wounds.
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Bangladesh is a secular country with a Muslim majority. Activists claim that the government appeases militant groups by arresting and suppressing secular and atheist writers.
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Just days before Roy was attacked, Nasreen posted a fictitious obituary for herself.

“Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen was beheaded yesterday by Islamist terrorists at her home in New Delhi where she had been living in exile,” she wrote. “It was inevitable.”
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Sad, but not surprising. Ex-Muslim atheists are #1 on the infidel kill list for those Muslims who believe infidels should be killed.
 
Interesting that his book was selling so well. A tragedy he was cut down by cowardly scumbags.
 
Their god must be so proud of slaughtering an unarmed and harmless person.

If a religion can't handle freethought, it isn't much of a religion.
 
dismal said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
Their god must be so proud of slaughtering an unarmed and harmless person.

If a religion can't handle freethought, it isn't much of a religion.
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This is how they handle it.
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This is an example of pure terrorism by religious fanatics...something every good atheist should concern oneself with. The issue as best I can determine was religion. Contrary to what Jimmy Higgins says, I feel it is just like religion to deliver that kind of results. So I think it is actually quite a religion. We well know that atheists are not innocent when it comes to killing people over religion either. I suspect this killing was indeed done with religious fervor. You know, it would take a lot of guts to go there with an atheists publication and try to promote it in that culture. The victims seemed to be anticipating an unusual form of suicide. It's really a sorry situation.
 
At what point does the duress caused by the actions of religious fanatics become justification to eradicate religious promoters?
 
I wonder if our resident Islam apologists think its coincidence Muslims did it and not Christians or Hindi. After all according to them its culture that influences people to do things like this and not religion.
 
Underseer said:
none said:
At what point does the duress caused by the actions of religious fanatics become justification to eradicate religious promoters?
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Never, unless you want to become as bad as they are.
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I am not saying you have to kill them, it maybe possible to get rid of the demographic through education so that the people aren't promoting religion but are secularists...
eradication might include jail or isolation,
so you wouldn't kill those that spread a potentially destructive to society message or absolutely destructive message because it is religious, okay.
but it appears that the message not exclusive to Islam is manifest from promotion of the religious doctrine, is the message harmful? apparently it is harmful because bad shit is happening because of exposure to the message.
 
Nexus said:
I wonder if our resident Islam apologists think its coincidence Muslims did it and not Christians or Hindi. After all according to them its culture that influences people to do things like this and not religion.
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Too far removed from that sort of culture. If the far right had its way, maybe in 100 years it'd be happening. Keep in mind, the US just decriminalized gay sex in 2003.
 
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