Muslims have beheaded two Christians in New Jersey, a cat in Sweden, and now an anti-jihad blogger...just this week. via Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh: police | NDTV.com. h/t Atlas Shrugs
Dhaka: A blogger who had been critical of
Bangladesh’s Islamist groups was killed in the capital late on Friday,
police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the
country’s largest Islamic party.
Protests championed by the country’s
bloggers have seen thousands of people take to the streets demanding the
execution of leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party who are under trial
for war crimes.
Clashes between police and Islamist protesters demanding the trials be halted have also rocked the capital.
Police found the body of Ahmed Rajib, 35 —
better known by his online identity Thaba Baba — near his home in
Dhaka’s Pallabi suburb, with his head hacked apart with a machete.
“We recovered the machete. It is clear the
attacker wanted to murder him. They did not touch his laptop or other
valuable objects,” police official Sheikh Motiur Rahman told AFP.
Police have not commented on a possible
motive for the killing, but Rahman, citing Rajib’s relatives, said the
blogger played a large role in organizing the anti-Islamist protests.
Rajib’s brother, who declined to be named,
told AFP his sibling had been “threatened frequently” by Islamists
angry at his role in the protests and his writings against the religion.
The killing late on Friday was the second fatal attack in Dhaka against a blogger critical of Islamist groups in less than a month,
after the stabbing death of a self-styled online “militant atheist” by
three unidentified men near his office in the upscale Uttara district.
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