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.
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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: 2) by TrumpetPower! on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:34AM
1984 was about a rather limited government on a most insignificant planet with demonstrable failings, if not necessarily ones that, in the context of the story, would soon lead to the demise of the regime.
Religions are about unlimited power over all of existence for all of eternity. That's the whole point of the religions -- that there can't even possibly be anything that could top them. This is not by coincidence; if you're an authorized representative of such a power, what mere mortal can question your authority? And it is why heresy is the ultimate crime in any religion, for you dare to undermine the very foundation for the authority of the priests. Er, the gods, that is, of course. It's the gods who have all the authority, and the priests, their humble servants, who are but mere mouthpieces voicing the desires of the gods.
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All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:55AM
1984 was about a rather limited government on a most insignificant planet with demonstrable failings, if not necessarily ones that, in the context of the story, would soon lead to the demise of the regime.
That's an incredibly optimistic view of the story. It's about eternal domination of humanity with their game plan working.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TrumpetPower! on Sunday August 09 2015, @03:17AM
Yet, even in the story, we see clear signs of constant and unsustainable decay: the chocolate rations "raised" from several to a few grams; the widespread urban blight Winston and Julia are able to find temporary respite in; the inevitable death and destruction from perpetual warfare. Sure, it's a slow burn, but, despite the government's rhetoric, it won't last forever. If nothing else, the Sun will burn up the planet in a billion years or so.
Religion, on the other hand...again, the whole point is eternal perfection. Long after the last star burns out, Jesus's boots will still be sniny from the constant licking from the faithful -- and that's not even the whole opening act.
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All but God can prove this sentence true.