On Thursday I was one of the first news sites to report on the slaughter in broad daylight of an American-Bangladeshi write, blogger, human rights activist by savage jihadis. I thought it would be worldwide news. What was I smoking? The mainstream media gave minimal coverage of yet another hacking of a free speech icon by misunderstood Muslims (or is that misunderstanders? Whatever, as long as you don’t blame Islam, you’re right.) Instead they jack up a parking dispute shooting into a bogus “islamophobia” crime.
The hacking to death of Avijit Roy leaving a book fair with his wife Thursday evening is as heinous an act of war on freedom as the Charlie Hebdo slaughter.
Where is our humanity? The United States of America — the nation of the Enlightenment — is standing by/ sanctioning the savage. That is below their barbarity – they believe they are acting in the cause of Allah – what’s our excuse?
Story continues below advertisement
What the media neglected to report is over the past few years hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims have protested and demonstrated calling for the death penalty for bloggers (here and here and here).
The NY Times lede paragraph began, “A Bangladeshi-American blogger known for his antipathy to religion was hacked to death on the street in this capital city by two assailants wielding machetes…”
“Known for his antipathy to religion”. Couldn’t you describe the New York Times that way – with the notable exception of Islam. He was a free speech advocate. All this tongue twisting is spineless and gutless
NYT DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladeshi-American blogger known for his antipathy to religion was hacked to death on the street in this capital city by two assailants wielding machetes, the police said on Friday.
The victim, Avijit Roy, 42, was leaving a book fair with his wife Thursday evening when his attackers approached him from behind, according to the police. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, 45, suffered a blow to the head and was in critical condition in a Dhaka hospital, said Sirajul Islam, an officer at the Shahbag police station, where Mr. Roy’s father reported the assault.
Jibon Ahmed, a photographer for a local photo agency, said by phone that he heard screams outside the fair around 9 p.m. After finding the couple, he said, he helped them into an auto-rickshaw and took them to the hospital, where Mr. Roy died.
The police have not named any suspects, but Mr. Islam said that witnesses had provided descriptions of the attackers. Officers recovered two bloodied machetes from the scene of the crime.
The writer Avijit Roy’s wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, at Dhaka Medical College hospital on Friday after she received a blow to her head from unidentified assailants.Credit Rajib Dhar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Mr. Roy was a prolific writer on secularism and condemned religious extremism, particularly through his blog, Mukto-Mona, the Bengali words for Free Mind. He also wrote on the website of the Center for Inquiry, an organization based in the United States dedicated to humanist thinking and critiques of religion.
In a recent article, Mr. Roy described the release of his 2014 book, “Biswasher Virus,” or “The Virus of Faith.”
“The death threats started flowing to my email inbox on a regular basis,” he wrote, describing reaction after the book came out. One extremist, he wrote, “issued death threats to me through his numerous Facebook statuses.” In one, the extremist wrote: “Avijit Roy lives in America and so it is not possible to kill him right now. But he will be murdered when he comes back.”
Michael De Dora, the director of the Center for Inquiry’s office of public policy, reacted to news of Mr. Roy’s death in a statement on the center’s website.
“Avijit was brilliant, yes, and a devoted advocate of free expression and secularism, but also just a very good person,” Mr. De Dora said. “Avijit was an inspiration to countless other freethinkers, in Bangladesh and around the world, and he was an inspiration to me.”
Krishna Pada Roy, a deputy commissioner of detectives with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said on Friday that the police were investigating possible motives for the killing, including extremist zeal.
In 2013, another Bangladeshi blogger, Rajib Haider, was killed by unknown attackers. He had helped organize protests that year demanding harsher punishment for perpetrators of crimes in Bangladesh’s 1971 war for independence, and was also a fierce critic of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami.
In 2004, Humayun Azad, a prominent writer and a teacher at Dhaka University, was seriously wounded in a machete attack after he attended the same book fair that Mr. Roy went to on Thursday, according to local news media reports.
Activists and intellectuals gathered at Dhaka University on Friday to protest Mr. Roy’s death and demand action against those responsible.
Parvez Alam, a Bangladeshi blogger who has written for Mukto-Mona, described Mr. Roy as “one of the most talented writers of our country.”
“This has been going on in Bangladesh,” he said by telephone. “The bloggers have different religious viewpoints and we’re being attacked again and again, and we’re not getting justice.”
“Using religion in the attempt to resist freethinking will not be accepted,” Khushi Kabir, a rights campaigner, told The Dhaka Tribune.
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you
and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently
banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds.
They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival.
Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
Knives , axes , hammers , stones , swords , machetes , guns , grenades , bombs – these all constitute the finer points of muslim debating skills . With brains that are shackled from birth and after centuries of inbreeding islam has reached the peak of it’s ignorance , intolerance , intransigence , paranoia and sheer stupidity. Books , information , education , freedom of thought and expression , independent analysis and objective criticism are ALL anathema to muslims . Thus is has thrived among illiteracy , poverty , backwardness , disease and deprivation for 14 centuries. It is now spreading to all corners of the civilised world and our leadership is too blind or too stupid to acknowledge the reality. They defend this abomination in their greed for Arab money and pay-offs as well as the assurance of a cushy retirement number as a ” consultant ” to some muslim controlled ” think tank ” – although I hesitate to use the word ” think ” when it includes BOTH muslims and politicians.
Lia
9 years ago
They (islam) are a horror in the world, and we, who distort & excuse their faith, come close.
And they’re still here. I believe the confederation of Psalm 83 is now forming & Mr Obama is also doing his part (cf. Zechariah 14: 2). But also Zechariah 11: 17, specifically for Mr Obama, I think.
it think the camel is out of the bag on him its over, and now he will do ask his book said if all fails I’m going with the Muslims what the hell did Washington dc think that meant? we all knew and so did those lying asses in our government!!!!!!!!!!!! its over boys =) your all going to jail
Sorry Evelyn, I don’t think so. There’s millions of Saudi money behind Hillary to defend her against any charges. I don’t know about Mr Obama’s financial arrangements with CAIR & possibly others.
In my home language, there’s an expression: ‘Geld wat stom is, maak reg wat krom is’ – Money, which is mute, makes right what’s askew. It seems to me this also works in the USA.
Laura
9 years ago
I wonder, will the day arrive any time soon, when enraged non-muslims begin to ‘take-out’ inflammatory muslim leaders?
Dave Quilty
9 years ago
When CNN gets it right it means the correct message is getting out to mainstream. Good news
That is the response of ALL the ” moderates ” !!. Stand by , do nothing , say nothing and simply DENY OUTRIGHT that all the atrocities are anything to do with islam !.
roccolore
9 years ago
Hamas-linked CAIR approves of this.
peter jacob
9 years ago
‘ Helter Skelter ‘- anywhere and everywhere .
Freedom of expression is under attack and being suppressed by any and every means
to the point where our way of life is threatened.
VietVET
9 years ago
in Hillary’s words……”what difference does it make”…….who cares????? well obviously she and Obami share the same indifference of Americans murdered abroad!!!!
hinduvoice
8 years ago
We all Hindu never belive Muslim person and if it was happend in India then they will must die as like as dogs
It is the conflict of our age, yet no one dares talk about it. The true story of the Islamic Supremacist war on free speech as told by those on the front lines fighting for our First Amendment rights,
.
Pamela Geller tells her own story of how she became one of the world's foremost activists for the freedom of speech,
individual rights, and equality of rights for all. "It's my story, it's what happens when someone fights for freedom in America today,"
Geller explained.
Today Islamic supremacists are demanding more accommodation of Islamic principles
and practices than ever, and daily growing more aggressive in eroding our freedoms – with politically
correct public officials only too happy..
Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author
Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our
hard-won...
The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks is a groundbreaking documentary on the controversy
over the planned Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.
Photos thanks to American Infidel
