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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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @11:58PM
You're making the foolish assumption that atheism is a belief system.
It is not.
I don't walk around, each day reaffirming my faith that the Abrahamic god doesn't exist. If I did that, I'd also need to walk around reaffirming that Vishnu and Kali don't exist either, as well as the sun god and on and on and on. I also don't walk around having faith that the stars have no impact on my life, that tea leaves hold no knowledge of my future, nor that animal entrails hold next week's lottery numbers.
I walk around, each day, with no thought for the imaginings and faiths of other people. They are meaningless.
Or perhaps I should walk around believing that tomatoes scream when we slice them?