British Muslim was the Mastermind of Gruesome Hacking to Death of American Writer, Social Activist Who Criticized Islam

Eminent Blogger and American writer Avijit Roy was savagely murdered and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured (slashed on her shoulders and the fingers of her left hand were severed) when devout Muslims hacked him to death as he was leaving a book fair at Dhaka University. Muslims stopped and dragged them from the rickshaw to the pavement before striking them with machetes.

“Islam is Peace”

Photo: Avijit Roy is a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka on February 26.

The mastermind of the savage slaughter was a British Muslim.

In Bangladesh, bloggers, social activists and human rights activists who speak critically of Islam have been brutally murdered by devout Muslims. Tens of thousands of Muslims in Bangladesh have rioted and protested and stoned police, burned shops  demonstrating for the death penalty for blasphemy laws under the Sharia (Islamic law).

Islamic supremacists and leftist lapdogs in the West say, “Oh, well, that’s Bangladesh — it’s a cultural thing.” No, it’s an Islamic thing and it’s universal to the ummah (worldwide Muslim community).

Roy on the founding mission of website  of free thinkers, “Mukto-Mona”

Our aim is to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science.

Has Chris Cuomo  condemned Avijit Roy yet?

“Bangladesh Arrests Three Men Suspected of Killing Atheist Bloggers,” Time Magazine, August 17, 2015

One is a British citizen accused of being the “main planner”

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Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested three suspected Islamic extremists carrying out the murders of two atheist bloggers, including a British national who authorities say was the “main planner” behind the attacks.

Spokesmen for the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the country’s elite security force, told Agence France-Presse that they had arrested 58-year-old Touhidur Rahman and two other “active members” of the recently banned organization Ansarullah Bangla Team.

The trio have been accused of killing Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, two of the four bloggers hacked to death with machetes this year in what has become an alarming pattern of violent backlash against secular voices in the South Asian nation. A hit list of 84 bloggers compiled by Islamic fundamentalist groups in 2013 continues to do the rounds, and the latest murder — that of Hindu writer Niloy Neel — took place 10 days ago.

The Bangladesh government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been criticized for failing to adequately protect secular bloggers and activists, but Tuesday’s arrests may provide hope that those responsible will be prosecuted.

“We’ve arrested them in the capital today,” RAB spokesman Major Maksudul Alam told AFP. “We can confirm that Rahman is a Bangladesh origin British citizen. He is the main planner of the attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das.”