Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh

H/T Oz-Rita

Ahram online:

A Bangladesh blogger has been killed after he played a large role in organizing big anti-Islamist protests in Dhaka
AFP , Saturday 16 Feb 2013
Bangladesh

FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi activists participate in a candle light vigil demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes during the nation’s independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh (AP Photo)

 

A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh’s Islamist groups was killed in the capital late 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.

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4 Replies to “Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh”

  1. In that article you post, cassandra, I read:

    “…Life in the IFE’s Islamic social and political order would be different from the way it is now. “Protect yourselves from all types of haram [forbidden things] … music, TV, and freemixing with women in that which is not necessary,” the IFE recruits were told. “Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no one agrees with that,” says the IFE’s community affairs coordinator, Azad Ali….”

    I wonder what kind of “freemixing with women” would be necessary and halal… a little pack rape ever now and then perhaps….

  2. Egyptian police publicly beat to death man suspected of killing officer

    Egyptian policemen beat to death in public a man they believed was the killer of a police officer who was shot on Saturday morning in the Upper Egypt governorate of Beni Suef, according to Ahram’s Arabic news website reporter.

    Investigations officer Captain Hesham Kamal El-Din Ta’ma was shot in Beni Suef city in the early hours of Saturday morning while he was breaking up a brawl involving firearms between two families in El-Ghamrawi and Ezbet El-Safih areas. Ta’ma was transported to Al-Zahra’ Hospital in Beni Suef city, but succumbed to his injuries an hour later.

    During the slain officer’s military funeral, several police officers and personnel, who had arrested Hossam Abo El-Regal, a man they accused of killing Ta’ma, in an apartment in Beni Suef city, then led him to the site of the funeral, tied him down in a mini-truck, and beat him to death as tens of mourners watched.

    According to Ahram Online’s reporter on the scene, the officers and police personnel attacked Abo El-Regal in the presence of senior security and political officials in Beni Suef who were leading the procession, including General Ahmed Shaarawi, the governorate’s security director and and Maher Beybers, Beni Suef’s governor.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/64933/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-police-publicly-beat-to-death-man-suspect.aspx