Mediagazer: The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh (Samanth Subramanian/New Yorker)

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The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh — On the afternoon of February 26th, Avijit Roy was in Dhaka, finishing a column for BDNews24, a Bangladeshi Web site of news and commentary. Its title, in Bengali, was “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?,” and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.

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