WTF? The fanatics are creating atheist martyrs.

[PassingFair]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971508/Unidentified-attackers-hack-US-blogger-death-Dhaka.html

"Roy 'was the target because of his crime against Islam,' the group said on Twitter.

The bio-engineer, who was a naturalized U.S. citizen, was a prominent voice against religious intolerance, and his family and friends say he had been threatened for his writings.

Roy, who was about 40 years old, and his wife were ambushed as they walked toward a roadside tea stall, with at least two of the attackers hitting them with meat cleavers, police Chief Sirajul Islam said.

'Several attackers took part in the attack and at least two assailants hit them directly,' Islam said, adding that two blood-stained cleavers were found after the attack."

Seems like a wonderful couple.

[trotsky]

1. "Roy 'was the target because of his crime against Islam,' the group said"

But it's not about religion. Because wonderfully wise and tolerant people on the Interwebz have said so. And they know Islam better than the people who actually identify with it.

[Gelliebeans]

21. second that opinion Trotsky n/t

[mountain grammy]

2. Islam is the state religion, but the government is secular..

I don't see how this is possible. I wonder what will happen in America when, what I believe to be inevitable, Christianity is made the state religion? I believe this may be only a couple of elections away, especially as our warming planet becomes more hostile.

[RussBLib]

3. I really don't think that will happen

There would be enough of a push-back to keep America (basically) secular. But we sure could use a new education push to try to wean the young-uns off of the religious teat.

The murder of Roy is not really that unexpected. He'd been receiving death threats for a long while. It's totally fucking wrong, but not unexpected, considering the ferocity with which some practice Islam.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Oh, now you've done it.

"we sure could use a new education push to try to wean the young-uns off of the religious teat. "

Dawkins is that you!?

( )

[mountain grammy]

7. I know it may sound nutty and conspiracy theory-ish, but

the majority of Republicans favor making America a Christian state and they seem to be winning quite a few elections these days. I know they're the minority, but they seem to be the majority at the ballot box, or, who ever may be counting the ballots. Whatever, for a "dying" party, the GOP is winning elections and the majority of Republicans favor establishing Christianity as a state religion.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_08/bibliolatry_at_the_heart_of_co051502.php

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026276465

[AlbertCat]

15. but they seem to be the majority at the ballot box

Only at midterms

[mountain grammy]

16. so far.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. I wouldn't be so sure.

I "hope" that it doesn't happen here, but it already is close to the US having a state religion. At least is we are to call "Christianity" a religion. Most people who are not believers is Jesus are not going to win elections, and in fact, they will be attacked by their opponents on that basis. The majority believe that you cannot be moral if you are not Christian. And I believe that it is getting harder to be a Muslim in this country because of the actions of militants. There isn't much left who are accepted.

I hope you are right.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I suggest stocking up on ammo now, rather than later.

[mountain grammy]

6. Nah,I think we'll just leave.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. That's on my list of options as well.

Hopefully, if the time comes, I will have left before leaving becomes impossible.

I don't doubt that certain parties will shift gears on their 'seal the borderz!' rhetoric to mean keeping people IN, should there be a mass exodus afoot.

[Curmudgeoness]

11. Why would they want us to stay?

I cannot see anything that would upset their theocracy more than having people who refuse to accept it.

Or maybe they will keep us here and take away our rights so that we have no power unless we "convert"????

[AtheistCrusader]

13. They have mandates to convert us, and many of us have considerable wealth to take with us.

I notice they rarely let people just walk away.

[mountain grammy]

12. We're less than a thousand miles from the Canadian border,

should be less than 20 gallons of gas in the Prius.

[Curmudgeoness]

19. I sure wish that Canada was to the south though.

If I move, I would prefer to move toward the warmth. It is cold enough where I am now. But Mexico isn't exactly the ideal country to relocate to. Why is it that the warm places are so screwed up?

[Warren Stupidity]

10. totally fucked up, but you know religion is all about getting together and singing songs

and then going out and hacking somebody to death for "words".

[edhopper]

14. But religion does so much good

the "majority" (not defined) of religious people support the same things most Humanists and secular minded people support.
The only difference is they do it because of their interpretation of religion, as oppose to seeing it as simply morally right.

[trotsky]

17. I wonder if living on a boat in a resort town might skew one's perception.

Being "basically homeless," one might not have the chance to fully experience the range of believers out there.

[edhopper]

18. "You might very well think that;

I couldn't possibly comment".