University professor brutally murdered in Bangladesh

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Source: ITV

A university professor was brutally murdered in Bangladesh in the latest attack on liberal activists by suspected Islamist militants, local police have said.

Police official Golam Sackline said at least two people on a motorcycle had ridden up to Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, an English professor at Rajshahi University, before slitting his throat and hacking him to death.

He said the pattern of the murder was similar to a string of recent violent attacks by Islamist militants in the country, targeting members of minority Muslim sects, liberal activists and other religious groups.

"We are investigating the killing," he added.


Read more: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-04-23/university-professor-brutally-murdered-in-bangladesh/

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1. What an oddly written article. The assassinations have specifically targeted atheists

The guardian gets it right:

Police believe Rezaul Karim Siddique is latest victim of Islamist militants who target high-profile atheists
A university professor in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in an assault police say bears the hallmarks of previous killings by Islamist militants of secular and atheist activists.

English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was hacked from behind with machetes as he walked to from his home to the bus station in the north-western city of Rajshahi, where he taught at the public university.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/23/bangladeshi-professor-hacked-to-death-rajshahi-islamists

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2. Other religious groups & secularists are also being killed.

Because apparently you MUST believe only that certain way that makes you a good Muslim, or be marked for death

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3. Doesn't it sound eerily similar to death threats by Trump supporters

to delegates who might vote the 'wrong' way?

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4. there is a difference between a threat and actually killing someone

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5. That must be why the Secret Service NEVER investigates threats.

Right?

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6. Why does everything have to turn into something about US?

Whether something good or bad happens in another part of the world, there's always a group of people who either use that as a opportunity to say something negative about the US or to to bash the other country to promote the superiority of the US. Oddly enough it's just people from the US who do it, but even folks from other countries.

Kinda silly.

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7. Kinda applicable sometimes

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8. Keyword "sometimes" nt.

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9. With the madness happening in Bangladesh and the recent Taliban attacks in Pakistan

all I can do is hope that India doesn't get attacked by the Islamic crazies from the two countries side by side.

[Eugene]

10. Rezaul Karim Siddique: Murdered Bangladeshi professor 'not an atheist', daughter says

Source: BBC

Rezaul Karim Siddique: Murdered Bangladeshi professor 'not an atheist', daughter says

24 April 2016 Asia

The daughter of a Bangladeshi professor who was hacked to death in a murder echoing the killing of several secularists says he was not an atheist.

So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the death of Rezaul Karim Siddique, who was killed on Saturday.

A statement from the militant group accused him of "calling to atheism".

But his daughter Rizwana Hasin told the BBC that her father believed in God, and that she had no idea why he was targeted.

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Police believe he may have been targeted by extremists because he was involved in cultural activities. They have detained a member of an Islamist student organisation for questioning.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36125115



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