Positive sign, hundreds came out to protest his killing. Negative, this is only the latest in a spate of hacking killings by Islamists and the government hasn’t stopped it.
Via LA Times:
Police in Bangladesh on Thursday identified the victim of a gruesome slaying in the capital as a 27-year-old student and secular writer, making him the latest person to be killed in the South Asian nation allegedly for criticizing fundamentalist Islam.
Authorities said the victim was Nazimuddin Samad, 27, who was attending law school in the evenings at state-run Jagannath University. In online writings, including on his Facebook wall, Samad criticized religious extremism. On his profile page, under religious views, he wrote: “I have no religion.”