Death of a US-Bangladesh blogger at the hands of religious fanatics in Dhaka

#AvijitRoy #Dhaka #Bangladesh #religiousfanatics The incident of the hacking to death of a blogger in the name of religion reveals the undercurrents in society with fears of terrorism and death lurking round every corner. The brutal murder of Avijit Roy, a US-Bangladesh blogger at the hands of fanatics in Dhaka, is proof as reported in bbc.com dated 27 February 2015.
Avijit Roy was returning from a local book fair with his wife when a knife-wielding mob, armed with meat cleavers, attacked them and hacked him to death. They had ambushed the couple as they were on their way towards a roadside tea stall.
He was an atheist who advocated secularism and his writings on religion earned for him wraths of Islamist hardliners. Police have yet to make any arrests but the gingers of suspicion point to a local Islamist group that has praised the killing on the internet. As informed by his family, he had received threats after publishing articles that promoted secular views, science and social issues in his Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind.
It seems he had defended atheism in a recent Facebook post. He had called it as "a rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief".
His death has been mourned by hundreds of students who gathered in Dhaka.

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