Blogger Hacked to Death with Machetes

I really wish this was just a funny title for a blog post but it isn't. Since 2004 four bloggers in Bangladesh have been attacked and most recently two writers murdered by those representing opposing religious extremes. I’ll be blunt. Avijit Roy received numerous death threats from Islamic militant groups prior to his murder by machetes last Thursday. Roy was the founder of the Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog, and he was killed inside Dhaka University, a bastion of secularism and free speech in the Muslim-majority nation of Bangladesh. The attack also left Roy’s wife seriously injured and is being condemned by the U.S. as a shocking act of violence. Rest in Peace Avijit Roy and may your killers know that though they succeeded in murdering you, your words live on and cannot be unwritten.