MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
By artappraiser on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 3:15am |Agence France Presse, 26 Feb., 2015
The culture wars continued: Avijit Roy, whose Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog championed liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, attacked along with his wife in Dhaka...Roy, said to be around 40, is the second Bangladeshi blogger to have been murdered in two years and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004. Hardline Islamist groups have long demanded the public execution of atheist bloggers and sought new laws to combat writing critical of Islam....
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