Widow of slain atheist blogger lashes out at Bangladesh

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Rafida Ahmed, who is recovering from injuries including the loss of her thumb suffered during a hacking attack by jihadi assailants, speaks during an interview with Reuters near Washington April 23, 2015. Ahmed’s husband, Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen, was killed in the February attack in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. RNS photo by Reuters.

Reuters | May 11, 2015

(REUTERS) On a recent evening in a Midwestern U.S. city, a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing thumb entered a crowded restaurant. Nearby, children colored with crayons. Waiters rushed by.

The maimed woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. The Atlanta financial executive has been hiding since Islamic militants wielding machetes attacked her on Feb. 26 in her native Bangladesh.

During the assault, her husband – the Bangladeshi-American secular activist and blogger Avijit Roy – was hacked to death. Ahmed sustained four head wounds, and her left thumb was sliced off. On May 3, the Indian-born head of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claimed responsibility for a string attacks in Bangladesh and Pakistan, including Roy’s.

The murder of Roy, an atheist who published a popular and provocative blog, marks an escalation by Islamist militants for control of Bangladesh. Religious fundamentalists are competing daily with secular government officials for power in the majority-Muslim country, one of the world’s largest and poorest democracies.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/11/widow-of-slain-atheist-blogger-lashes-out-at-bangladesh/

[Warren Stupidity]

1. "an atheist who published a popular and provocative blog"

according to some people here Roy bears some responsibility for his own murder.

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2. Who here propose he bears some responsibility for the loss of his life

and the loss of her thumb?