Counter-Jihad blogger beheaded in Bangladesh

This blogger who wrote against jihad and sharia was found "with his head hacked apart with a machete." Ahmed Rajib, aka Thaba Baba, had been "threatened frequently" by jihadists who were angry at his role in the anti-jihad protests and his writings against the religion.

The silence of the complicit lambs. Where is the media on this? If the Puff Ho covered this, they'd blame the blogger. The motto of the media is free speech for me, but not for thee.

Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh: police NDTV (thanks to Suneil)

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Dhaka: A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh's Islamist
groups was killed in the capital late on Friday, police said, a day
after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country's largest
Islamic party.

Protests championed by the country's bloggers have
seen thousands of people take to the streets demanding the execution of
leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party who are under trial for war
crimes.

Clashes between police and Islamist protesters demanding the trials be halted have also rocked the capital.

Police found the body of Ahmed Rajib, 35 — better known by
his online identity Thaba Baba — near his home in Dhaka's Pallabi
suburb, with his head hacked apart with a machete.

"We recovered
the machete. It is clear the attacker wanted to murder him. They did not
touch his laptop or other valuable objects," police official Sheikh
Motiur Rahman told AFP.

Police have not commented on a possible
motive for the killing, but Rahman, citing Rajib's relatives, said the
blogger played a large role in organizing the anti-Islamist protests.

Rajib's
brother, who declined to be named, told AFP his sibling had been
"threatened frequently" by Islamists angry at his role in the protests
and his writings against the religion.

"In recent months he stopped writing against Islam and concentrated on the war crime issues," he added.

At
least 13 people have died during clashes over the ongoing trials in
which a host of senior Jamaat figures — including the party's leader
and deputy leader — are being tried over their role in the 1971
independence war.

The clashes have intensified since last week after a senior Jamaat leader was sentenced to life imprisonment for mass murder.

Jamaat
and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have said the
trials are based on bogus charges and part of a wider political
vendetta.

The government says the trials are needed to heal the
wounds of the nine-month war in which it says three million people were
killed, many by pro-Pakistani militia whose members allegedly included
Jamaat officials.

The killing late on Friday was the second fatal
attack in Dhaka against a blogger critical of Islamist groups in less
than a month, after the stabbing death of a self-styled online "militant
atheist" by three unidentified men near his office in the upscale
Uttara district.

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Fitna

11 years ago

Just more evidence there’s a real war going on between the forces of hate, fascism, tyranny and dark ages barbarism and freedom, modernity and civilization.
I’d rather read about some anti-Islamic blogger mow down a bunch of Islamofascists rioting over cartoons of their pedophet but this is the sad state the world is in today.

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Fitna

11 years ago

*with an AK47
Or how about an 8 yr old Jewish girl shooting an Islamic terrorist in the head like Merah, rather than the other way around.
I hope in the future we get stories like that when infidels start finally fighting for their freedom.

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Face_The_Truth

11 years ago

Beheading, Stoning, and Amputation are three important means of Islamic punishment.
Putting a traitor to death by beheading is widely accepted custom in Islamic culture.
That’s why Islam is considered the most beautiful culture by John Brennan of the U.S. government.

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Karol Kibbie

11 years ago

And the crickets in the press chirp on…

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BethesdaDog

11 years ago

“We recovered the machete. It is clear the attacker wanted to murder him. They did not touch his laptop or other valuable objects,” police official Sheikh Motiur Rahman told AFP.
Uh…are they sure they wanted to kill him? Maybe it was a mistake, or an accident. It is so out-of-character for those engaged in the “internal struggle” that is jihad.

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Auntie Gin

11 years ago

He probably committed suicide–like the woman did when she repeatedly hit her head on a coffee tabe. Ain’t Islam grand!

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