It was reported by the BBC today that a Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say.\u00a0 Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack.<\/p>\n
They are the latest victims in a series of deadly attacks on secularists since blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death by suspected Islamists in February. Both publishers published Roy\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
While it would definitely be wrong to put all Islamists in the same fanatical and bloodthirsty category, it nevertheless says something about the nature of this religion when it is able to incite some its followers\u00a0 to such barbaric and murderous measures in order to defend their faith.<\/p>\n
I seem to recall that Nietzsche said once that \u201cmorality is a function of a herd\u2019s instinct to self-preservation\u201d\u00a0 and clearly, the Muslim herd feels under threat here,\u00a0 and is resorting to deadly measures\u00a0\u00a0 to defend itself against attacks based on reason and critical thought.<\/p>\n
Presumably, this demonstrates once again the necessity for certain religious beliefs to be based on fear as opposed to having a foundation in truth, if only because there is none to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was reported by the BBC today that a Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say.\u00a0 Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed … Continue reading