Friday 27 February 2015

Bangladeshi Zealots Butcher Atheist Blogger in Dhaka.

"Fight & kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait & ambush them using every stratagem of war." So Allah tells his bloodthirsty believers, in the most important verse of his hideous & incoherent Koran, number 9:5, otherwise referred to as the 'Verse of the Sword'. This is why Muslims kill Jews & Christians, who believe in god in the wrong way, & Sikhs, Hindus & Buddhists, who believe in the wrong god.

But surely the most reviled of disbeliever would be the atheist, who believes in no god whatsoever. This is the reason atheist bloggers in Bangladesh have come under attack in recent years from slavering members of Jamaat-e-Islami & it was only a matter of time before such a notable as Avijit Roy was assassinated, as reported by bdnews24.com yesterday (hat-tip to God @TheTweetOfGod):

Assailants hack to death writer Avijit Roy, wife injured

Unidentified assailants have hacked to death writer Avijit Roy and seriously injured his blogger wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya.

Police said the couple came under assault near TSC intersection at Dhaka University around 9:30pm on Thursday.

Witnesses said they were on a rickshaw returning from the Amar Ekushey Book Fair when two attackers stopped it, dragged them onto the footpath and started hacking them.

They were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared Avijit dead during an emergency surgery, its police outpost Inspector Mozzamel Haque told bdnews24.com.

DMCH casualty department's Residential Surgeon Riaz Morshed also confirmed bdnews24.com about Avijit Roy's death.

Islamist zealots have been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals.

Avijit has been a regular bdnews24.com columnist and the founder of popular blog Mukto-mona.

He is the son of well-known physicist Ajay Roy who has taught at Dhaka University for a long time.

Avijit had suffered a deep gash on his head during the assault and Bonya lost a finger and suffered cut wounds.

She was still under treatment at DMCH.

Two machetes, Bonya's severed finger and a bag that possibly belonged to the assailants were recovered from the scene, Shahbagh police Sub-Inspector Sohel Rana said.

He told bdnews24.com: "We found some old folded newspapers inside the bag along with some other things. It seems the machetes were wrapped with the newspapers."

CID officials collected the evidence from the crime scene, he added.

One of the witnesses, a teashop owner in that area, told bdnews24.com that both assailants after carrying out the attack had dumped their weapons at the scene. Then one of them ran towards TSC and the other Suhrawardy Udyan, according to the witness.

Avijit's blogger friends say he was possibly trapped – some bloggers had invited him to a book fair event.

Police are investigating the lead to track down the culprits.

Avijit Roy is well known for his books 'Biswaser Virus' (Virus of Faith) and 'Sunyo theke Mahabiswa' (From Vacuum to the Great World).

Two of his recent titles had been launched at the ongoing Ekushey Book Fair.

His writing and blogging had evoked the ire of fanatics and he had been regularly threatened.

Thursday's attack bore a striking similarity to the one on legendary writer Humayun Azad in February 2004.

Azad was also returning to home from the Ekushey Book Fair when he was hacked with machetes by radical militants. He later died in Germany while undergoing treatment.

Militants also hacked blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider to death in a similar attack near his home at Dhaka's Mirpur in February 2013.

That was barely 10 days after the secular platform Ganajagaran Mancha started its Shahbagh-based agitation.

Islamist radicals had attacked other secular bloggers like Ashraful Alam and Asif Mohiuddin after the Shahbagh agitation polarised opinions in Bangladesh.

They were demanding capital punishment for war criminals and a ban on communal parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami.

Fanatic blogger Farabi Shafiur Rahman had issued death threats demanding that Rokomari.com, an online shopping portal, stop selling books of Avijit Roy.

Police had arrested Farabi in connection with Rajib Haider's murder, but he managed to secure bail later.

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