Ten key questions (and answers) about the attacks on atheist bloggers in Bangladesh
The murder of 28-year-old law graduate on Wednesday was the sixth such killing since February 2015.
Yesterday · 06:30 pm
Updated Yesterday · 08:24 pm
David Bergman
What can one conclude from Wednesday’s murder of 28-year-old law graduate Nazimuddin Samad who was hacked to death by assailants in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, bringing to six the total number of men killed in a similar manner since February 2013?
Here are 10 key points about the attacks on young atheists in Bangladesh.
1. Who’s at risk?: If you are currently living or staying in Bangladesh and write, or have in the past written, critically about religion on any website, blog, Facebook or Twitter account, you are at risk from being attacked and killed by Islamic militants.
That may sound dramatic, but that is the unfortunate reality. Social class will obviously play a role – and elite atheist bloggers (so-called, even though some of them seem to have been targeted for expressing themselves on any form of social-media) are less vulnerable than middle or lower middle class people like Samad, who do not have their own cars and who have to walk to work, or take public transport.
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