Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

There has been a spate of blogger killings in Pakistan in recent weeks. This latest blogger, Ananta Bijoy Das, has been critical of Islam recently. He was attacked early in the morning by four bravely masked men with machetes and meat cleavers, according to CNN;

Das’ death was at least the third this year of someone who was killed for online posts critical of Islam. In each case, the attacks were carried out publicly on city streets.

In March, Washiqur Rahman, 27, was hacked to death by two men with knives and meat cleavers just outside his house as he headed to work at a travel agency in the capital, Dhaka.

In February, a Bangladesh-born American blogger, Avijit Roy, was similarly killed with machetes and knives as he walked back from a book fair in Dhaka.

The three victims are hardly the only ones who have paid a steep price for their views.

In the last two years, several bloggers have died, either murdered or under mysterious circumstances.

Islam doesn’t stand up well to scrutiny, apparently. Of course, Islamist extremists also thought that they could silence Pam Geller in Texas last week, too, using terror and fear. That doesn’t exactly work so well in the United States, does it?

Category: Terror War