"The institutionalised persecution of the non-religious" [View all]
From this week's British Humanist Association Newsletter:
Washiqur Rahman becomes the third humanist to be cleavered to death in the streets of Dhaka
This morning, the humanist satirist and blogger Washiqur Rahman was hacked down not 500 yards from his house, because he criticised religious fundamentalism in a blog. Barely a month has passed since Avijit Roy, the Bangladeshi American founder of the Mukto-Mona blog, was killed in identical circumstances. Ahmed Rajib Haider met a similar end in 2013.
The institutionalised persecution of the non-religious is seen all over the world. In some places, as in Saudi Arabia, the state acts as persecutor. In others, like Bangladesh, a tradition of turning a blind eye to murders committed in the name of blasphemy has given confidence to well-coordinated thugs and terrorists. Following an international outcry over Avijit Roy's death, the man who promised to murder him was arrested for the crime, and afterwards Ahmed Haider's suspected killers were indicted for murder as well. But these late-in-the-day reactions did little to deter the man who killed Washiqur this morning.
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More here:
https://humanism.org.uk/2015/03/30/another-free-speech-murder-in-dhaka-writer-washiqur-rahman-is-hacked-to-death/
Yes, it's in Asia, not the US or the UK but how long before one of your "godly" politicians starts putting people in jail (or worse) for daring to not believe in gods?
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