Saturday, February 28, 2015

American religion critic killed, wife wounded in Bangladesh. Avijit Roy received death threats prior to visit


 

 

 

By Ben Brumfield CNN, UPDATED 5:11 AM EST Feb 28, 2015




-Banglar Chokh, from facebook

(CNN) —In his writings, author Avijit Roy yearned for reason and humanism guided by science. 

He had no place for religious dogma, including from Islam, the main religion of his native Bangladesh.
Extremists resented him for openly and regularly criticizing religion in his blog. They threatened to kill him if he came home from the United States to visit.

On Thursday, someone did.

As usual, Roy defied the threats and departed his home in suburban Atlanta for Dhaka, where he appeared at a speaking engagement about his latest books -- one of them titled "The Virus of Faith." He has written seven books in all.

As he walked back from the book fair, assailants plunged machetes and knives into Roy and his wife, killing him and leaving her bloodied and missing a finger.

Afterward, the Islamist group "Ansar Bangla-7" reportedly tweeted, "Target Down here in Bangladesh."
Investigators are proceeding on the notion that Roy's murder was an extremist attack. His father, Ajay Roy, filed a case of murder with the Shahbagh police Friday without naming suspects.

No one came to their aid as they were hacked down, a witness said. "I shouted for help from the people but nobody came to save him."

But at night, secularist sympathizers marched through a street holding torches; by day, others held a sit-in to protest Roy's killing. The government condemned the attack.

Who was the software engineer, a U.S. citizen from Alpharetta, Georgia, who drew such rage from some and adoration from others?

Who was Avijit Roy?
Software was his career, but writing and blogging were his calling. And he did not speak alone. Roy founded the religion critical blog Mukto Mona, which served multiple writers.

He called it "an Internet congregation of freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists mainly of Bengali and South Asian descent who are scattered across the globe."

Its mission was to promote science, secular philosophy, democracy and religious tolerance in articles by academics and activists.

Its headers contain quotes by famous scientists, including one attributed to Albert Einstein condemning the doctrine of heaven and hell as a means of enforcing ethics:
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary."

To the most devout and to extremists, Roy's criticisms amounted to blasphemy. He took aim at the sentiment in a blog post headlined, "Happy Blasphemy Day, Happy Birthday 'Mukto Mona.'"
Some who felt oppressed by religion said he spoke for them.

"Avijit Roy, your voice of reason and your passion for free thinking will never die. You were a voice to so many voiceless," a fan wrote after his death.

How stark was his criticism?
Very. Roy and the blog's other critics took off the gloves when it came to religion, particularly Islam.

Roy was a fan of Bill Maher's harsh reproach of Islam and a critic of Reza Aslan, who has countered Maher's standpoint.

His blog called Aslan "an Islamic apologist, who obviously feels threatened by the growing Atheist movement in the U.S. and worldwide."

Roy likened women in burkas to "living zombies," tweeting out a cartoon of one standing next to a child dressed as a ghost for Halloween.

Did he blame religion for violence?
Yes. He began one of his final articles by writing that January's Charlie Hebdo massacre in France was "a tragic atrocity committed by soldiers of the so-called religion of peace."

He doled out scathing criticism after another Bangladeshi blogger was hacked to death outside his home in 2013 by assailants with machetes.

"The virus of faith was the weapon that made these atrocities possible," Roy wrote.

But he also criticized Christianity. "So, Pope Francis thinks 'evolution is real'! And it is still a major headline news in this century," he recently tweeted.

To Roy, God was an outdated notion.

Did he only criticize religion?
Roy sought enlightenment in doubt, criticism and reason. Question everything, was a theme in his online posts. Never think you've found the truth.

He was a science geek who admired Charles Darwin, evolutionary psychology and astrophysics, according to a Facebook account in his name. CNN could not independently verify it belongs to him.

Roy was a fan of "Cosmos," the TV series explaining the science behind the origin of the universe, and of the geek sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."

Mukto Mona contains sections titled "Science" and "Rationalism," but most of the articles hold science up to religion as a litmus test, which it invariably fails.

"To me, it is a rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief," Roy said.

Could he have known he would be killed?
That's likely. He regularly attended a February book fair in the Bangladeshi capital, and last year, after he launched "The Virus of Faith," the death threats began streaming in.

They landed in his email inbox and cropped up on social media.

"A well-known extremist ... openly issued death threats to me through his numerous Facebook statuses,"

Roy wrote.
His book "hit the cranial nerve of Islamic fundamentalists," Roy wrote. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, an online Bangladeshi bookstore pulled it after extremists put pressure on it.

But is seemed the author was safe in Alpharetta.

"Avijit Roy lives in America and so, it is not possible to kill him right now. But he will be murdered when he comes back," the Islamist wrote, according to Roy.

He couldn't let that stop him, Roy's friend Michael De Dora said.

"Avijit was very idealistic," he said. "His understanding was that he wouldn't be killed, that if anyone ever tried to attack him or hated him, that they could just kind of have a chat and he would convince them ... that they could at least have a dialogue."

He never had a chance to. They attacked from behind.


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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

ISIS Charges People $172 To Have Sex With One Year Old Infants







JUST DISCOVERED, ISIS Charges People $172 To Have Sex With One Year Old Infants And Nine Year Old Children (READ THE NEW PRICE LIST ISIS JUST RELEASED)

By Shoebat Foundation on November 4, 2014 in Featured, General

By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Exclusive)

ISIS has set up thestandard market price list for the sale of sex slaves. Yep, you got it right. It’s right here in black and white and blue (the ISIS seal of approval):



And we will translate it verbatim for all you English readers who still say that the sale of women is not true Islam:

Price List–Sale of Booty

We have been informed that the market for sale of women had been witnessing a reduction in price which effects the needs for the Islamic State and the funding for the Mujahideen. For this, the commerce department had decided to set a fixed price regarding the sale of women. Therefore, all auctioneers are to abide by this and anyone who breaks the rules will be executed.

    PRICE  (in Dinar)                         MERCHANDISE
    $75,000                                 age 30-40/Yezidi/Christian
    $100,000                              age 20-30/Yezidi/Christian
    $150,000                              age 10-20/Yezidi/Christian
    $50,000                                age 40-50/Yezidi/Christian
    $200,000                             age 1-9/Yezidi/Christian

    Limit to 3 Sex Slaves with exception to foreign sales to Turks, Syrians and Gulf states.

The price reduction issued by ISIS was to expedite the sale of sex slaves due to an overstock. Clients from Turks, Syrians and Gulf states can purchase more than 3 sex slaves from an array of mature women, young women, teen, under age … to even infants. The conversion rate is $86 dollars for 100,000 Iraqi dinars.

The sources from the Middle East reports thousands of innocent Christian and Yezidi women come in the forefront involving  rape, kidnapping and murder, flogging and stoning and forced marriages.

Countless sources reported the new deal [see examples here, here and here] The prettiest of women for sale in the slave market are distributed to the ISIS princes while others are murdered for refusing to practice Sex Jihad. The Mehr (dowry) for women in “Nineveh” Iraqi province could reach up to one million and a half million dinars. Any woman who resists is flogged 30 lashes, and all sale  outside the Muslim courts in the province is prohibited.

Westerners think that bizarre sex dealings are restricted to ISIS. Misyar marriage, for example, is nothing more than legalized call girls and has branches globally including in the U.S. It was first sanctioned in Egypt and Saudi Arabia to only spread to several other Muslim nations. There are many websites used to facilitate the transactions. The most popular is click here for ‘lonely’ Muslim men who are on the road and are allowed to have sex with local Muslim women (who advertise themselves) in the area where the lonely Muslim male is traveling in which he can order his bride in the comfort of his hotel room by the touch of his keyboard.


        Mesiara Online screenshot. Mesiara Online screenshot.
                          
Call girls are permitted in Islam and even with Muslim women donned with Hijabs. Misyar means sex for the travelers. While prostitution exists in every corner of the globe, its sanctification with fanciful words is what is particularly at issue here. The word prostitution is stealthily removed since there is a transaction established that says “marriage” instead.

Misyar is all over the Middle East and is sanctioned by many top Imams. The Muslim “conservative” world is much more disgusting than one can imagine. It’s actually far more like western liberalism than western conservatism. Misyar marriages are rarely if ever discussed in Western mainstream media, perhaps – at least in part – for that reason.

ISIS simply follows the Muslim standards set by Imams in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Kurdish intelligence are saying that thousands of abducted women work as slaves in homes or are being sold to human traffickers to work in brothels in several parts of the Middle East, while forcing others to marry ISIS fighters. Officers in the Kurdish intelligence, they received that women selling to people smugglers, including between $ 500 and $ 3000. 1200 women at least were abducted from the town of Sinjar while  thousands are kidnapped from nearby towns and villages.  Schools in Tal Afar are used for temporary holding place for women.

A spokesman for Iraqi Red Crescent, Mohammed al-Khuzai, declared that “elements of the organization ISIS detained dozens of families in Tal Afar Airport from the Turkmen, Yazidi and Christian background while killing all the men to offer their wives in the markets, and pointed out that Christians and Yazidis stranded in the mountains in” Sinjar “numbering 200 thousand displaced people, including more than 25 thousand children, and noted that the delivery of assistance to them is difficult because the roads closed.

Recently trading pioneers of social networking sites showed hundreds of video clips, which explains the prices for Yezidi and Christian sex slaves.
Shoebat.com were the first to show a leaked video of ISIS auctioneers discussing the distribution of sex salves:
The video shows ISIS openly admitting that the establishment of a “slave market” to sell sex slaves.