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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 09:02 AM Mar 2015

Bangladesh Court Indicts 8 in Killing of Atheist Blogger

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bangladesh-court-indicts-killing-atheist-blogger-29718740

A court in Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday indicted a leader of a hard-line Islamist group and seven students in the hacking death of an atheist blogger two (weeks) ago.

The Metropolitan Sessions court issued the indictments after accepting the police investigation into the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in front of his house in Dhaka's Mirpur area.

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Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American atheist who wrote against Islamic radicalism, was hacked to death about two weeks ago on the campus of Dhaka University. Roy's wife was also injured. A suspect has been arrested and investigators say Islamist radical groups were responsible for the attack.

In their investigation report, police said Rahmani incited the seven students to murder Haider in sermons in which he said all atheist bloggers should be killed to protect Islam.
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Bangladesh Court Indicts 8 in Killing of Atheist Blogger (Original Post) trotsky Mar 2015 OP
How thin and pathetic is your 'faith' if you have to murder humans to protect it? AtheistCrusader Mar 2015 #1

AtheistCrusader

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1. How thin and pathetic is your 'faith' if you have to murder humans to protect it?
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:34 AM
Mar 2015

Humans who used nothing more than words in opposition.

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