A secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the country's third such deadly attack since the start of the year.

Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by masked men with machetes in Sylhet, police say. He is said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists.

Mr Das wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona, a website once moderated by Avijit Roy, himself hacked to death in February.

Sweden has confirmed it turned down a visa request from Mr Das in April.

He had been invited to attend a press freedom event by the Swedish Pen writers organisation but officials in the country's embassy in Dhaka refused the request, citing a risk he might not return home.

Swedish Pen told the BBC they were in the process of submitting an appeal when they heard of Mr Das's murder. The group has demanded an explanation from their government, the BBC's John McManus reports.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32701001

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Well...im not surprised , when they fell threaten, they will just kill and destroy

Wat

This post has been edited by sgshuhu: May 13 2015, 09:46 AM

Rusty Nail

tabouleinimachiem

Bangladeath

im referring to Islamist extremists, Islam and Islamist extremists are 2 different category

Easy to silence than debate/argue gentlemanly.. it took too much effort and takes years of studies by scholars from respective side. Parang can be bought or borrowed from kitchen at minimal effort.

martyr ?

For? He's an atheist.

This is sad

now imagine if alvin hiding at bangladeshi

serumpun

What if we could settle all atheist vs muslim debate in kopitiam with knife and parang?

Vroom..vroom...

Keep on imagining

a different kind of perception for Bangla if they were atheist..

way higher than those muslim bangla..

An act by Religion of peace

ok i'm gonna rage a bit about current muslim behaviour and attitude


why when issue like israel, US and whatever non muslim did then u see muslim raging and openly protesting/condemning about it.

But when another muslim doing it, every other muslim just keep quiet and pretend like nothing to see here, move on.

Does this mean, any devil wearing a muslim style clothing can do whatever atrocities and international muslim communities will support him or just feign non interest because he's claiming he is the same religion?

Plz wake up, this is the main reason why the world is so fcuked up nowadays. For someone that believes in god, do u seriously believes god support ur current attitude or behaviour? (atheist no need to comment, go sit in that corner). Dont u think the reason god is not answering millions of prayers to save gaza n etc because we have strayed from the path?

plz, if we do not change this attitude. any poser can simply wear a pious clothing, claim to be muslim and totally do the opposite of islamic teachings while the dumber ones around us is cheering him on and the others just let it happens.

God will not help us unless we are the ones that changed ourselves

Wasn't this forever ago?

put some islamic caption at the end of the thread, insta 50 pages

so sapa mati next?

How many understand this....

Why are they scared to show their face if they have so much faith in their religion and truly believe in what they're doing?

Vroom vroom...let the generalization begin....oops it has already started, soz.

now the name already tainted because of bad pr

i think is your user ID and your display pix, haha

not surprised if this will happen in malaysia

Well... if that is the case... we all know who will win...

the "peaceful" one?

Tutup aurat bro

Well... after they are done, things would be peaceful...

Its not as if they will fight among the sects...

it will be peaceful once everyone else is "gone"

That's the problem with keyboard warrior

Only can say "what if"

lunch makan apo ya??

KZ2012