Oh god no not again – another atheist blogger hacked to death by men with machetes in Dhaka.
Washikur Rahman, an atheist blogger, was hacked to death on a busy street in the centre of Dhaka on Monday morning, a police official said.
“Police on duty near the spot caught two attackers red-handed with three machetes as they were fleeing the scene after the incident,” police official Humayan Kabir told Reuters.
A fellow writer said Rahman wrote against religious fundamentalism on Facebook and across other social media sites using a pen name, although this could not be confirmed by police. The alias used by Rahman is said to be “Babu” (ugly duckling).
“He is a friend of mine and a fellow warrior. He was an atheist and a believer in humanism,” fellow blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who survived a brutal attack by Islamists in January 2013, told AFP via Facebook from Berlin.
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It’s now open season on secular, atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. A beautiful country has been sodomized by religion.
The religion of peace and mercy strikes again.
Bastards.
I’m glad this sentence wasn’t followed by,” and they congratulated them on a job well done.” Since this sort of thing seems to be rather condoned by the people and the authorities.
Sad, and enraging.