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A gang armed with machetes has hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the start of the year, an activist group and police have said.
Niloy Chatterjee, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered on Friday after the men broke into his flat in the capital's Goran neighbourhood, according to the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network, which was alerted to the attack by a witness.
"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," the network's head Imran H Sarker, told the AFP news agency.
Chatterjee, 40, was a critic of religious extremism that led to bombings in mosques and the killing of numerous civilians, Sarker said.
First found here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/fourth-secular-bangladesh-blogger-hacked-death-150807102408712.html
Search led to these sites: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-07/machete-wielding-gang-kill-blogger-in-his-home/
http://www.firstpost.com/world/dhakas-secular-claims-get-increasingly-blood-soaked-as-another-bangladeshi-blogger-is-killed-2383420.html
http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2015/08/07/news-id:29841/
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:14AM
Either a militant agnostic or a True Believer in a sorry joke of an attempt to intimidate atheists into shutting up and going back to where they belong at the back of the bus.
Do you know anyone who can be cowed by moderately bad poetry? I don't think it was an attempt at intimidation.
And everything we've learned about through science practically screams that the gods simply couldn't do the things claimed for them.
No, it doesn't. If your philosophy is based on things which can be observed, then by the foundation, it has nothing to say about stuff that can't be observed. But this sort of thing contains one of the more well-known cases of cognitive dissonance in religion. It is routinely claimed that whatever supernatural beings we're supposed to believe in make themselves known to us. But at the same time, they don't. The being who reveals and hides at the same time has to be part of the most annoying religious argument of all time, namely, that you known the truth, but refuse to acknowledge it.
(Score: 2) by TrumpetPower! on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:28AM
A wise man once remarked that the unobservable and nonexistent are indistinguishable. Sure, there might be an invisible dragon in your garage that breaths heatless flames...but until it actually interacts with something else in the Cosmos it might as well not be there at all.
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.