02-28-2015, 07:02 PM
Sad story.
Dr Avijit Roy, a scientist and blogger from Atlanta, Georgia, and a prominent atheist thinker in Bangladesh, was killed on a university campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday night. RIP.
The killers sliced through his skull with three deliberate blows, then dropped their weapons and fled. Roy's wife, Rafida Ahmed (pictured below with Roy), was also attacked, and is in hospital with a deep gash to her head.
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An obscure militant group called Ansar Bangla 7 has claimed responsibility for the attacking, which it said was because of Roy's 'crime against Islam'. It said he was their 'top target' because of his US citizenship, and that they wanted to take revenge for American military action against ISIS and the Taliban.
Writing in the pages of the New York-based Center for Inquiry, Roy said: 'For me, religious extremism is like a highly contagious virus', comparing extremists like the Charlie Hebdo attackers, who endanger their own lives for religious principle, to animals being ruled by a disease.
He continued by saying: 'Faith-based terrorisms are nothing but viruses - if allowed to spread, they will wreak havoc on society in epidemic proportions.'
Roy had expressed a similar sentiment in his latest book, published in Bengali, titled Biswasher Virus (Virus of Faith). He was leaving a book fair held on the University of Dhaka's campus Thursday when he was jumped by at least two attackers.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3T5Cm7w7S
Dr Avijit Roy, a scientist and blogger from Atlanta, Georgia, and a prominent atheist thinker in Bangladesh, was killed on a university campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday night. RIP.
The killers sliced through his skull with three deliberate blows, then dropped their weapons and fled. Roy's wife, Rafida Ahmed (pictured below with Roy), was also attacked, and is in hospital with a deep gash to her head.
An obscure militant group called Ansar Bangla 7 has claimed responsibility for the attacking, which it said was because of Roy's 'crime against Islam'. It said he was their 'top target' because of his US citizenship, and that they wanted to take revenge for American military action against ISIS and the Taliban.
Writing in the pages of the New York-based Center for Inquiry, Roy said: 'For me, religious extremism is like a highly contagious virus', comparing extremists like the Charlie Hebdo attackers, who endanger their own lives for religious principle, to animals being ruled by a disease.
He continued by saying: 'Faith-based terrorisms are nothing but viruses - if allowed to spread, they will wreak havoc on society in epidemic proportions.'
Roy had expressed a similar sentiment in his latest book, published in Bengali, titled Biswasher Virus (Virus of Faith). He was leaving a book fair held on the University of Dhaka's campus Thursday when he was jumped by at least two attackers.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3T5Cm7w7S