Posted on 05/12/2015 9:10:24 AM PDT by BCW
DHAKA: A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.
Police said that Ananta Bijoy Das had been murdered in broad daylight as he headed to work at a local bank in the city of Sylhet, an attack that fellow writers said highlighted a culture of impunity.
Kamrul Hasan, commissioner of Sylhet police, said that a group of around four masked attackers had attacked Das with machetes at around 8.30am on a busy street in Bangladesh's fifth largest city.
"They chased him down the street and first attacked his head with their machetes and then attacked him all over his body," Hasan told AFP.
Bangladesh is an officially secular country but more than 90% of its 160 million population are Muslims.
The country has seen a rise in attacks by religious extremists in recent years. Supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, which is banned from standing in elections, have been accused of being behind a spate of firebombings since the turn of the year aimed at toppling the government.
Since 2013, at least five bloggers have been attacked by Islamists after another hardline group, Hefazat-e-Islam, publicly sought the execution of atheists who organised mass protests against the rise of political Islam.
It's the Religion of Piece(s). A head there. An arm there. A leg there, etc.
Yet another refreshing zephyr of psychospiritual clarity from the world’s Islamists - the hopeless ass-clowns of religious bigotry and ignorance.
what?...they have GUN CONTROL in Bangladesh??
We need to spend a few trillion on a headhunter outreach program. At least they do something creative with the heads after they chop them off!
I didn’t know they had a town named Bangladesh in Texas!
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