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Bangladesh: Muslims hack to death another atheist blogger

May 12, 2015 1:13 pm By Robert Spencer

Ananta Bijoy DasAnanta Bijoy Das is the third atheist blogger who has been recently murdered in Bangladesh. How dare they provoke them! These atheists have to stop poking the Muslims in the eye. They have to realize that their atheism is offensive to Muslims — and you see, they must have known that before they were murdered. That means that they had every reason to believe that their continued atheism was inciting the Muslims to kill them, and they bear responsibility for their own deaths.

Right?

That is, after all, the argument that people like Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Greta van Susteren and others have used to criticize our free speech event in Texas. This kind of thing shows where that reasoning leads: it is the path of appeasement and submission to Sharia.

“Ananta Bijoy Das: Yet another Bangladeshi blogger hacked to death,” by Saeed Ahmed, CNN, May 12, 2015:

(CNN)Attacks on bloggers critical of Islam have taken on a disturbing regularity in Bangladesh, with yet another writer hacked to death Tuesday.

Ananta Bijoy Das, 32, was killed Tuesday morning as he left his home on his way to work at a bank, police in the northeastern Bangladeshi city of Sylhet said.

Four masked men attacked him, hacking him to death with cleavers and machetes, said Sylhet Metropolitan Police Commissioner Kamrul Ahsan.

The men then ran away. Because of the time of the morning when the attack happened, there were few witnesses. But police say they are following up on interviewing the few people who saw the incident.

“It’s one after another after another,” said Imran Sarker, who heads the Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh. “It’s the same scenario again and again. It’s very troubling.”

Public killings

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….

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  1. Theodoric says

    May 12, 2015 at 1:38 pm

    To defend our freedoms from the vile religion of the vile “Prophet” Muhammad:

    We first need to DRAW the vile “Prophet” Muhammad, so we don’t forget what he looks like.

    https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/to-defend-our-freedoms-we-need-to-draw/

  2. Ricky Black says

    May 12, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    Does your freedom and free speech end at the feelings of Islamic murder laws? That’s the only real question in America today

  3. Jaladhi says

    May 12, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Oh this religion peace and its “moderate” Muslim followers ae great. All they do is keel, keel, keel…Thats how they maintain peace!!

    Can anyone count the number of “moderate” Muslims – hmm, about 1.6 billion!!

    • Don McKellar says

      May 12, 2015 at 2:06 pm

      Being a truly devout murdering moslem, following the example the blood-thirsty mohammad, involves a great deal of self-sacrifice and hardship, turning you into a criminal in any modern, advanced country. It would be against human nature for the majority of moslems to be mad dog killers. And why should they be, as in any country where they have colonized fully, the kufir have been exterminated and there’s no reason to continue to murder and enslave an enemy which isn’t really there any more.

      Of course, the “moderates” are always under threat from the devout and, in the absence of a military dictatorship, civil war always breaks out. Like in Iraq, Syria, Libia, Yemen, and many other places in Africa. Peaceful religion? Hardly!

  4. Don McKellar says

    May 12, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    As if we atheists didn’t hate Islam enough, here’s another reason to continue to take the fight them on the internet and anywhere else by any legal means possible. The death cult of the moon god must be exposed and stopped in our advanced modern civilized countries. They mean to kill everybody who opposes them. Their “holy” books tell them to very clearly.

    • RG says

      May 12, 2015 at 4:56 pm

      The really tragic thing about Ananta Bijoy Das is that, although he died for a RIGHTEOUS cause – the exposĂ© and revelation of islam’s vile ignorance, he nonetheless forfeited his reward from God because he died disbelieving in the very existence of God! You atheists need to think about the fact that, ‘I’d rather die a believer in God, and then become a non-existent entity for all eternity, than to die a non-believer and find out I was WRONG’ for all eternity! Remember, you can’t come back and do things over! Is it really worth the risk??? Someone has rightly said, ‘It takes more faith to not believe in a Creator than to actually believe in one’! Amen!!!

      • Don McKellar says

        May 12, 2015 at 5:56 pm

        Let’s put it this way: I’d hate to have to spend an eternity in a heaven where all the righteous true believers are. I don’t think I could imagine a worse hell than that.

        I’ll tell you what. You pray for me, and I’ll think for you. That sounds like a remarkably good trade for you. I might actually come up with something constructive that would make your life better, while you will — well, completely waste your time. But I guess it would make you feel good about yourself, so that’s something.

        • RG says

          May 13, 2015 at 1:37 pm

          @Don McKellar.
          Here’s one for you to consider… Maybe you’re confusing the “righteous true believers” with the ‘self-righteous’ hypocrites. Remember, the old Gospel song is still true… ‘What a (true) Friend we have in Jesus’! That’s the reason that I choose to serve Him. I can tell you from years of experience, that ‘He’s a Friend who sticks closer than a brother.’

          And here’s another thought… true believers are, generally speaking, aside from personality conflicts, true friends. Some day I hope to shake your hand as your ‘true friend’ in ETERNITY in Heaven! Amen!!!

      • Ian H says

        May 12, 2015 at 6:03 pm

        Deciding to believe something because you’ll get a reward is about as real as a faked orgasm. Surely any god would know the difference. I am not going to lie to myself and pretend to believe where I really do not. Truth is too important to me.

        • RG says

          May 13, 2015 at 3:26 pm

          @Ian H.
          Wow! Seems to me that we all live to receive rewards. Is every pleasure in life a “faked orgasm” to you? Then I really feel sorry for you! What’s so selfish about looking forward to a delicious meal at the end of a hard day’s work? Sometimes it may actually be about getting paid for a job well done. In the Bible, Jesus speaks to his ‘righteous’ servant, “Well done, good and faithful servant…you’ve been faithful over a few things, I will make you a ruler over MANY things.” Is that story merely a case for greedy avarice? And seriously, if Truth really is “too important” to you, may I suggest you investigate the claims of Christ. He’s the only One Who ever made the claim that, “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.”

      • Susan says

        May 12, 2015 at 8:12 pm

        God loves all and forgets no one.

      • duh_swami says

        May 13, 2015 at 7:03 am

        RG…So if belief is the key to the kingdom, then disbelief locks you out…That’s kufr…and very Islamic of you…

        • RG says

          May 13, 2015 at 2:15 pm

          @duh_swami
          Hey, hey, just a little slack, please. Surely you know that for every pound of ‘genuine’ there are ten pounds of phoney baloney. Remember, old mo stole most of what he wrote in his book of lies and half truths, from the ancient Hebrew and Christian scriptures. It’s called plagiarism and distortion. There’s NOTHING islamic about the writings of the Bible, it’s the koran that needs to be BURNED for heresy! Your assumed correlation between Christian faith and islamic heresy really doesn’t hold water! I could quote you any number of scriptures OUT OF CONTEXT just to prove an argument, to my own selfish ends!

      • torino390 says

        May 13, 2015 at 9:24 am

        Well, you’re quite wrong actually. There are no Gods, never have been, never will be. But let’s not turn this into a ‘my God’s better than your God’ sort of deal. The man-made creation of Gods were merely our way of trying to explaining things when we still thought the earth was flat, the kind of beginnings of science if you will. But we know how stuff works now, and have a much better understanding of the world, past and present. So kindly drag yourself away from the dark ages please, and let’s face the current situation we have. That of millions of people still believing in heaven and hell and all that babble. It’s fairly obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a house plant that religion, any religion is THE reason for most of the worlds problems we have had, and continue to have. I mean, why is this page you’re reading even here at all? Time to rid the world of all this tosh and live together, as human beings, without silly superstitions. Rant over. If I’ve offended anyone, sorry, but I don’t really care, it changes nothing.

        • particolor says

          May 13, 2015 at 10:05 am

          Well Said !! 🙂

        • Stephen G. Wessells says

          May 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm

          So how did the atheist Communist regimes that slaughtered tens of millions increase the understanding of the world? Don’t you know that the founders of modern science like Isaac Newton, Boyle, Harvey, Pasteur, Bacon, et al, were all Bible-believing Christians? If the two are so incompatible, how could that be? If you bother to study Christian philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig, I think you would find their IQs challenging even for you. Check out areasonablefaith.com. Not that high intelligence necessarily equates to contributions to human well-being. Josef Mengele was, by all accounts, a cultured and well-educated man.

  5. Arish says

    May 12, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Where ever muslim live they hate others ITS Time UN should divide nation to two one for muslims and other for non muslims. Muslims can’t live with others.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2015 at 4:19 pm

      When have such divisions ever worked, Arish? Muslims just use their new designated lands to consolidate their powers, decimate the remaining Infidel population, and use the territory as a base from which to wage violent Jihad against their neighbors. We’ve seen this all over the world—from Pakistan (and Bangladesh) into India, from “Palestine” and Egypt into Israel, from Kosovo into Serbia, from Sudan into South Sudan, from Somalia into Kenya—on and on.

  6. Shmooviyet says

    May 12, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    Will this story be mentioned on ANY teevee news show?
    This is one sickening, horrific fate most at FOX will never need fear.

    • Grntonpnt says

      May 12, 2015 at 3:38 pm

      Thats the problem, it most likely won’t get on any news here in America. The sheeple will continue to be in the dark about the wolf. We could wake up a whole fasteras a nation if we would get this news about the ROP on a daily basis as we get here. More sheeple would wake up a whole lot faster…mayby we can start to eliminate the smell.

  7. gravenimage says

    May 12, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    Bangladesh: Muslims hack to death another atheist blogger
    ……………………………..

    For just a split second, I read this headline and thought it was a reference to Muslim computer hackers trashing the guy’s web site.

    Even after all this time—at least since 9/11—I am still often taken aback by the Muslim capacity for sheer homicidal savagery.

    God, I hate Islam.

  8. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 12, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    Once AGAIN, the “Religion of Peace” Displays it’s TRUE Nature, as Islam’s Allah, Mohammed, and the Qur’an Commands.

  9. dlbrand says

    May 12, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    Four more Muslims enjoying the freedom of practicing their “religion.”

    Wherever Islam is practiced, Islam will be practiced.

  10. MRM says

    May 13, 2015 at 3:22 am

    @RG, you are right. Keep speaking up for the Kingdom!

  11. Baucent says

    May 13, 2015 at 6:04 am

    These attacks on critics of Islam again show the violent murderous streak that runs through the religion. Though most muslims may be peaceful, a significant number are not and will kill if they perceive a provocation or insult. That will of course over time cause non-muslims to self censor and avoid criticism of Islam and challenging the practices and behavior of muslims. In the UK the Anti Hate speech legislation is again being proposed by the Conservative government. It is meant to crack down on Jihadist propaganda, but it is likely to catch counter-Islamisation activists as well. If Islam can not be challenged and questioned, then in Western Countries, Stealth Jihad cannot be stopped.

  12. Kafir Lime says

    May 13, 2015 at 10:07 am

    The first death, that of Avijit Roy in February, attracted some notice and comment internationally. Now there’s hardly any. Is it because killing of rationalists by Muslims is now so routine that it is no longer news. Soon Muslims can claim that such reports should be banned because these promote Islamophobia.

  13. Mark says

    May 13, 2015 at 10:33 am

    https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc

  14. GKP says

    May 13, 2015 at 11:16 am

    That’s how Islam is operating since 532 A.D. Humanity is under great threat and the concerning fact is that the Government is engaged in the vote bank politics and the media is also partnering the TAQUIYA of Islam.
    The time is running out we have to unfold the truth of dirty and ugly Islam. It is not a religion its a political system where muslim surrender to Allah which is false creature women surrender to Muslim and non Muslim surrender to Muslims.

    • winoceros says

      May 13, 2015 at 2:48 pm

      632 AD, but point taken.

  15. gravenimage says

    May 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Remember, if things get much worse in the West, this is *exactly* what Muslims will be doing to critics of Islam here—hacking us to death in the streets.

  16. Marco says

    May 13, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    “Hacked to death”! Great lets let imam obamas gang take our guns and lets all be hacked to death!!!!! Hacked to death! Evil minions of satan

  17. John Billings says

    May 13, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    Christians here in the USA are also offended by Atheism, but you don’t hear of them hacking Atheists to death.

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