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Fresh off the heels of last month's
brutal murder of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American atheist blogger, by Islamic extremists, Washiqur Rahman, also a Bangladeshi atheist blogger, was stabbed to death today in Bangladesh.
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Local police chief Wahidul Islam told Agence France-Presse the victim had been “brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards [460 metres] from his home at Dhaka’s Begunbari area”.
Ibrahim Khalil, a fellow blogger who knew Rahman through events they organised, said Rahman was a “progressive” who wrote against religious extremism and repression of ethnic minorities.
“I can say he was a very humble man,” Khalil said.
The Dhaka Tribune reported that the dead man was a member of eight Facebook group pages including Atheist Bangladesh.
Rahman, who worked at a travel agency as an IT manager, is the third such blogger to have been murdered in the Muslim-majority country in the past two years.
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"Deputy police commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker told AFP the motive for the killing appeared to be “ideological” differences with fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh.
“So far what we’ve gathered after primary interrogation of the two suspects is that they killed him him because he criticised hardline Islamists,” he said.
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Rahman was sympathetic to the murder of Roy, posting #iamavijit on his Facebook page.
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RIP.
