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In other news, a giant manifestation of The Great Phallus was once again seen in the sky

https://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0n3pm1upk1r4ri63o1_500.png

Note the difference in size and sheer, unbridled awesome. The Phallus literally has the largest sack in the universe.

The Phallus is indeed great

Ultimatesammie:
No hv hrd of it though how gud is it, wat is it abt.

Iirc similar to naruto in many ways. I'm not much of a fan personally so can't really comment on how good per se, but i can see how it would appeal to traditional shounen fans

There's also d. Grayman. I never saw the anime but read a lot of the manga. It was good, clean fun for me, if not totally epic. Anime supposedly stays true to that form. I'd say it were more similar to FMA

Also read some oh great: tenjou tenge and air gear. Both are written as if he was on some of the best high one could possibly attain, convulted messes as plots, but with excellent artwork and great action. The animes are supposedly true to their sources as well, and I'd have them as similar to bleach

Op, what in the universe is wrong with you??

Glorious

However leave the color blue out of it. What they paint is more pink-ish sef, all dreamy and fluffy and style over substance (in before sexism PC outrage)

Ultimatesammie:
do u know any other action superpowered like anime apart frm the ones u mentioned nd not fairy tail too I feel like watching something intense just like those ones.

If you're looking for long running, have you seen hunter x hunter yet?

acenazt:
I like action (shounen) like Naruto,Bleach,one piece,attack on the titans,full metal alchemist etc

Eva is supposed to be shounen, but the mc here is most definitely NOT your typical shounen hero

Let's just say he has issues, as do the whole main cast. And the main draw of the show is how they (don't) deal with them, not the giant monsters (despite their awesome)

Through the show sef they don't even give you details of what's happening. Rather bewildering considering the plot is excellent. As a hint though: humanity are essentially the bad guys. The giant monsters aren't called angels for no reason

Plenty action and explosiveness in the rebuild movies, try them. If curious then you can then go back to original TV series. Rebuild isn't finished yet. 3 movies out of 4 so far. If you've seen the first 2 and they aren't your cup of tea then just dump the series

Emmalot121:
That that which you sow, you reap.

You reap where and what?

There's profit in heaven? What of sin, it exists in heaven?

What does Yahweh reap by roasting people? Especially those guilty of the heinous crime of not believing in him?

Also, I take it you have no problem with Isis burning people alive?

Emmalot121:
The end will justify.

Is hell eternal or not?

And this is a good post. What is the end to be achieved by punishing people in hell?

Emmalot121:
Eternal Fire means Fire of God since God is eternal.
He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but
abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the
great day.
Look at the use of eternal in this verse, doesn't it make sense that they are going to be untied in order to be punished, yet it is adjudged to be eternal!!!

Bros, I'm sure the talking donkey from your book of fables, even though controlled by Yahweh, would make more sense than you ATM.

It seems you can't back up this 'eternal' claim but just to be clear, by your interpretation you deem hell not to be eternal?

Just to clarify. But I'll let you know ahead of time; it matters little if it's eternal or not.

Emmalot121:
Hell is not eternal. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7

I'm confused here. For starters, you just stated hell is not eternal, then immediately mentioned an 'eternal fire'

acenazt:
my bros I dey see dat evangelion but I no dey download am how the show be like?.

well....

.....

Hmmm

What kind of anime do u like?

I ask as it's not for everyone. Even I didn't think much of it until something like 10 years after I initially saw it. It makes many powerful statements, easily more so than any other anime I've seen, but if you're not thinking you'll miss them

If you just want action sha you can just watch the new evangelion rebuild movies. You may not understand what's going on (even old fans may get lost) but at least you'll get to see some excellent eye candy

It would one of the vilest creatures one could possibly conceive, Yahweh, actually exists and has some power. So it would be terrible, for everyone and everything

Don't believe me? Well imagine singing those aweful xtian songs for eternity. And this while you're well aware that a loved one, brother, mother spouse or friend, is roasting in hell for simply believing in another god. Let's not get into those roasting in hell for breaking the old Judaic laws, eg wearing cloth of differing fabrics

And this is the tip of his folly. Considering his capriciousness, whose to say he might not one day decide to roast you as well for not dancing like mc hammer while you sing?

If you're fine with such an existence, then you might be as psychotic as your god

So, as I still have carry over, I still watch..

In my defense elections have slowed biz

Currently watching fate/stay night: unlimited blade works 2. That's the only thing I'm following this season. Dont know what else is on, tbh, dont follow like i used to. Any recommendations?

From just concluded season, followed aldnoah.zero 2 and log horizon 2. Az very disappointing (save some battles, but that's to be expected). Lh2 decent but nowhere near as good as lh1

Will post mal later, but tentatively would say my favorites are evangelion, code geass and planetes

Evangelion most superior anime ever conceived. Prove me wrong

Let's ignore the big 3, or big 2, or soon to be big 1(my grand children will follow one piece at this rate) as they're covered well in other threads (except maybe bleach)

This is an excellent question

Bumpin and FP please..

timmy2409:
Man, Reddit always introduces me to ridiculous nuggets of weirdness. I always end up asking myself WTF is wrong with people?

This was a response earlier today on the thread: What moment made you think "f*ck I'm weird"?

Is it me, or is the guys logic reasonable?


I had always thought myself an alien. These days I recognize myself as human, but from the future

Some of those on that thread are true aliens. I can only bow

DProDG:
Lmao...please tell me she a troll 'cause I just can't

I've seen worse though so who knows?

Indeed, it's quite sad that despite her good troll, real sheeple are actually worse

Y'all should get troll (and sarcasm) detectors

With evolution, the assertion is that faith is involved. That similarly to how creationists assert there's a god of the gaps evolutionists (not sure why that is even a word, but meh) invoke an 'evolution of the gaps'.

"How do you know so and so feature evolved when you cannot yet show how it evolved? How do you know it wasn't spiritual"

This question is as silly as asking

"How do you know ailment x was not caused by germs when you cannot show which germs caused it? How do you know it wasn't spiritual?"

I'm well aware many of you ask this question, but surely you can't expect the rest of us to take you seriously. I hope...

If you think Ebola is a result of spirits powah then there's little i can do for you, and good luck to you

Evolution is just as solid as germ theory, if not more so (its certainly much more solid than say gr). It's been confirmed across multiple disciplines (provably more so than any other theory) making predictions and what not. So no, unless you can show spirit powah in action, we sane will continue to work on the premise that natural processes are responsible. And we have a fairly simple framework that explain these processes; evolution

So when we see an eye, we don't say god. We go out and find why and how naturally, same as with germs. And the why and how of eyes has been done conclusively. Today, we still have mysteries eg, blood clothing, but what do you expect us to assume the source is?

This is not faith. It's fact..

More subtle is the allegation that evolution cannot be disproved. This is also wrong. It can be disproven fairly simply - all you have to do is show the central tenents are wrong. Show that gradual changes would not result in major changes over generations. Show that proposed changes could not have possible precursors in ancestors. Show life with 'alien' DNA on this rock, etc etc

Most critics tend to cling on a detail, or on the instances when scientists get a detail wrong, and milk that brazenly. They forget evolution wasn't proven using just the one fossil (in fact, it wasn't conceived with fossils in mind, they came in a bit later and simply confirmed what was already being ascertained). There's an overwhelming body of evidence that supports it, so if you're going to disprove it you better come with something solid.

And even if you do, that doesn't mean the whole theory will be tossed out, not necessarily. Look at the aforementioned gr, I already mentioned there are some serious reservations, but certainly no one's defenestrating it yet. Its simply thought to be incomplete or effective, in that it doesn't describe what goes on at a quantum level.

Today, one of the holy Grails is to merge qm and gr, perhaps leading to the grand theory of everything. Should similar concerns be found with evolution I imagine something similar would occur, rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water. But note that evolution has no such concerns, at all. Seeing it shot dead like ether is nigh on impossible. And I make this assertion without using faith. All you need do is provide your facts and evidence and evolution will go the way of the dodo

Phew...youre still reading? U try. .. That's it...I hope

Now, most of the results coming in backed up the quantum scientists, but the geezer did have some valid scientific points. So one of them, even as he himself found quanta weird as well, came up with a test.

How would you test a claim that is rather similar to something from nothing, in other words similar to most supernatural claims which assert that something undetectable (or your spirit powah) is responsible or has a hand in physical, natural events? Apparently, not too dissimilar to other tests for the supernatural like prayer; by using statistics

He showed that in Einstein's (the curmodgeon) proposed scenario, if the qm scientists were indeed correct, then the results of repeated tests would fall within a particular range. Whereas if Einstein's insunuations, that there were certain hidden physical elements we simply cant detect responsible for all this jazz, then the results would fall within another range. It is rather relatively simple math, which for the most part can't really be argued against.

Took them a few decades to gain the tech to finally perform the tests and the results....since then.....confirm what qs asserted. Same simple statistics used to deny prayer confirm the more unintuitive qs

That is the point of all this story; even when scientists make seemingly bizzare and unnatural claims they do not require you believe them based on faith. No. They provide objective evidence anyone invested enough can verify himself. And they follow the evidence - they've no choice in the matter - regardless of where it takes them.

Religion is of course very much the opposite, to the point of many times making demonstrably false claims, then asking you to believe on faith. Please don't mix up the two, they are in no way the same

And finally, we get to how this relates to evolution...

So to some up the weirdness;tl Dr; when not being observed the particle will be - seemingly - at multiple places at once (theoritically, possibly through the whole universe!). It only gains a (genuinely random but) definite destination when you observe it.

So yes, when you're not watching it the moon isn't really there (but no, as you don't need a conscious observer, just an observer. Any system complex enough qualifies as one, and that includes basic macroscopic systems let alone the moon)

Indeed, you could even set up to observe the particle, therefore forcing it to choose a path, but then delete that data after the event has supposedly taken place, thereby ostensibly altering the past

This, amongst many other things, was no good to classical physicists. One particular curmudgeon refused to desist, and came up with a typically brilliant curve ball against this voodoo. He pointed out that if all the quantum scientists asserted were true, then another of their conclusions - of which the details we need not be too concerned about - would require, sort of like the above, some sort of instantaneous or faster than light communication. This would mean general relativity was wrong (or at least, rather incomplete) for starters. And gr, though of course complex to us mere mortals, really is just simple, near on irrefutable common sense. The subject of interest is the response of the quantum physicists

EvilBrain1:
Little known fact: King James (of the King James Bible) was a flaming homosexual.

Yet many Christians claim it is the only truly inspired translation of the bible. Its funny how the passage of time can make anything seem so dignified.

"Jesus had his john, I have my George"

Goodness

And the comments, such sweet tears

Joyful77:
Same old BS! Keep on recycling the propaganda, it's just a tasteless icing on a stale cake!!

As for your ancestor Stalin, atheism was his inspiration. End of Story!

Shouting 'end of story' doesn't make ylpour nonsense more logical.

How is the below propaganda

Mo was a raping, murdering, slaving warlord that married a six year old (and consummated the wedding when she was 9) whom you consider holy. The model human being

And

Stalin wasn't inspired by atheism as, and this may be beyond you, there's no such atheistic dogma. There is such a thing as communism though (or Bolsheviksm, or whatever nonsense he prescribed to), stalism which is built, conveniently for him, around his cult of personality. All these have doctrine and what not. Atheism? No (and BTW, most atheists in the west and around here would consider themselves humanists. I highly doubt that stalin would approve)

The above are lies?

Look up the words propaganda, hipocrite and lies, then please explain what I said, not what you said, qualifies as such. With such backwards thinking it's easy to see why you remain a muslim. Stuck in time literally and figuratively

Your conscience seems to be nagging you. You clearly accept the above, just like your masters do, and thus there's no sliver of a defense from you, yet you still defend it?

Is it because of 72 v.irgins? Man, selfishness of religious mind. Those could very well be your sisters..

Joyful77:
Weird wiegraf.... Expanding the frontiers of s*tupidity!!

If those Muslim 'ogas' subscribe to killing as punishment for apostacy, it's a cause for worry in the sense that they've been blinded by their own thirst for violence, NOT because Islam taught them to. Even though apostasy happened right under his nose, Muhammad (PBUH) N-E-V-E-R killed anyone for apostasy in his lifetime, and THAT IS the 'oga', whose example I am meant to follow.

I suppose that this 'cancer' you talk about was also contacted by one of your ancestors in atheism- Joseph Stalin! He killed tens of millions of people and starved another tens of millions to death!! Guess what? He didn't get his inspiration from the Quran!!!

This is why I implore you to shake your head and allow your brain to fall back in place, so you can realize that the religion-blaming game doesn't solve the problem of violence but only takes attention away from it!

Read your own words... "Look at the xtians, their folly was once...well....." (Lol. You can't even express it well). Real atheists aren't partial, they knock out their opinions flat and bold, irrespective of the religion they're addressing!

But at least you agree that the christians' innumerable gruesome killings have been exposed. If the world engaged in religion-blaming game like you're doing now, instead of facing squarely the problem of extremism which happens to exist in all religions, atheism and agnosticism, would it have been possible??

Where to even begin?

The Oga you're supposed to follow? You mean the warlord pedo?

That....er...is the problem

You mention Stalin, please show me which atheist creed he followed which all atheists must adhere to...

Waiting....

You, on the other hand, glorify some camel lover that had no problem raping, slaving, murdering his way through some desert 1400 years ago. He even took some time out marry a six year old.

This is what you hold as holy, and thank you for making my point. I repeat, this barbaric. And clearly so

Meh

Joyful77:
The ONLY contribution you have are insults. Pathetic!

I'd point out you're being silly, but you're already religious so that's redundant.

For one, even if that were true, do you note who........began this thread??

Kayi...

Anyhoo, I've already made my point, but you're too foolish to note. That your creed is barbaric is without doubt. Your ogas don't deny it, and you really don't want me to open that book and expose your smelly blockoss. It's tiring and been done over and over (not to mention, again, your ogas don't even deny this...). Indeed all one need do is simply ask you what the punishment for apostasy is in your religion to make our point. Simple. No too much long story. So that is not up for debate.

I, or shall I shall say the people this thread is aimed at, do not care about your silly opinions that piss all over the conspicuous and obvious.

What this thread is about is how to deal with your cancer, not determine if you have cancer. I apologize if that's not clear to your infirmed brain due to the rhetorical question in the op.

So, kudos.

That said, I do enjoy pointing out folly a wee bit too much. I'll give you that.

For the (thankfully now few, due to the internets and education), uninformed (from a slightly less uninformed layman with permanent retardation whenever math shows up), the rest can ignore this

Quantum Physics posits that the moon isn't really there when you're not watching it (well, sort of). It posits matter is both particle and wave. It posits there are certain values that can never really be known. All this weirdness is connected, and it can be said to begin with this (simplified) premise; you can never really be sure.

Science is all about knowing stuff for sure, so that can't be right, no? Well..

An example of this weirdness would be the (by the standards of the modern scientific community) age old double slit experiment. Quanta are both wave and particle-like, that alone is strange but somewhat ignoring that, fire 2 separate light beams at a board through thin slits and observe the results. As light diffracts, similar to how you can hear sound through a closed door (the sound wave moves 'around' the door), you'll get a pattern on the board which would be similar to what you'd expect from say, waves on a beach. They'll clash and alternating bands will show up where they hit the board. Something like this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Single_slit_and_double_slit2.jpg/350px-Single_slit_and_double_slit2.jpg

We're concerned with only the second image. I'll call this an interference pattern. Note that while each individual particle floats around like it's surfing a wave, it only makes one dot when it hits the board. So that pattern indicates many different particles bumping into each other and hitting the places you'd expect them to hit if they were interfering with each other in a particular way (note randomly that you cannot exactly determine where a particle will land, only an approximation, in other words this is a truly random process, but let's ignore that a little).

So cool, the particles are all wavelike and bumping around. What happens when you fire just one laser, or better yet just one particle at a time, through the slit? You'd expect the particles to hit the board somewhat arbitrarily, but no. Instead you get the exact same interference pattern. So, somehow, the particle passes through both slits and begins to handle itself (something intended, sorry)

Alright, this is all fine but we already get quanta behave both wave and particle-like, so why not observe what is actually happening? That is why not observe how the particle splits and follows both slits?

When you do that, when you try to observe the particle do juju, it does more juju; nothing special happens. The particles pass through one slit and the interference patterns disappear.

Even weirder, if you setup so that you can observe the particle, thereby making the particles choose one slit and getting rid of the interference pattern, but instead destroy the data of the already made observations, the pattern reappears.....

That's some f.ucked up $hit

not to worry. there's a pont to all this

tbc

Prayer, despite all the claims it relies on faith (or whatever nonsense) can be and has been tested by using a simples; odds, probabilities, whatever. You carry a group of ill receiving gigawatts in prayer power and compare them statistically to those not on the end of such effective treatment and compare them, you'll note the prayers make absolutely no difference. However, if you compare the ill that receive solely prayer as treatment to those receiving no prayer whatsoever, just plain modern medicine (brought to you modern science), you'll note the differences, clearly.

So, yeah, we can basically discard prayer as hokum. It's nonsense, and this has been objectively verified, but whatever floats one's boat so meh. You can claim otherwise but you really can't expect others to indulge you. But I mention prayer for a particular reason. The way described here to verify the efficacy of prayer is similar to the way used to verify some really jazzy physical theories, Quantum Mechanics. QM illustrates how open minded science is, as it really implies some fairly far out stuff, more so than most religious hullabaloo, and it demonstrates how science must go with the evidence regardless of how absurd it may be.

TBC

Reading some scarily foolish statements prompted this. Seems many of you seem to think science is subjective. That it's somehow the white man's thing.

........

Na wa

As there might quite a few of you out there, better to address all here

Anyhow, no. It does not rely opinons, faith and so on, therefore claiming science is the white man's thing is as silly as saying the color blue belongs to the white man. See? Folly

It's really simple with science; even when one is at the stage of conjecture or hypothesis, if your claim is not falsifiable, in other words it isn't objectively verifiable, then it isnt science.

The color blue was not created by man (unlike say Jesus or Yahweh), it freely exists in nature. Same thing with scientific theories, obviously. All natural. In fact, that is their very definition as science is a study of the natural. So going about claiming germ theory belongs to the white man is impressively foolish. You might as well go around claiming that 1+1=2 belongs to the white man as well.

I won't elaborate anymore on that. If you can't see the glaringly obvious, then you need a special needs teacher to help you

Now, if we leave the domain of the harebrained a more nuanced and related allegation of faith in science plays out thus; how do you know every cause in the universe is natural? How do you know everything around you is natural?

Simple, logic demands it is so. Call it the logic of something from nothing but it's a bit more than that. And, importantly, history backs it up.

Not once in history has phenomena attributed to supernatural causation been shown to be so. Not once. The reverse is very much untrue. From your grannies assuming an invisible man (usually, sorry females) with a sprinkler system was responsible for rain to those thinking disease was a result of spirits mocking about, history is replete with examples of supernatural causation being pissed all over on by natural, read scientific, explanations with evidence to back them up.


And the claim that the supernatural cannot be verified, perhaps even by definition, is usually off. They largely can be confirmed, eg the giant sprinkler in the sky. Even those more involved, eg prayer.

Tbc

Joyful77:
Anyway, you should also be informed that Muslims these days are not also expected to fight according to those laws you quoted; those verses are contextual. Extremists who claim that they're killing based on the verses are merely exploiting them for their own selfish interests and are NOT fighting for Islam!!

I know you're allowed to lie in order to spread your cancer, but oh once more, who do you think you're deceiving? Makes me wonder why you're still here..

If you honestly believe this, truly, then it's safe to assume many 11 year olds would comprehensibly whoop you in a standard IQ test or you're woefully ignorant of your religion's tenents. More likely the former.

usermane:
You shouldn't discount the possibility that some of these bloggers or writers are not atheists but Muslims battling extremism and fanaticm. As a Muslim committed to combating Islamist or extreme ideas within the Muslim world, i have had fanatic Muslims accuse me of disbelief or apostasy just to discredit or write me off. This is a typical response of fanatic Muslims to critique and debunk of their ideology. This accusation is more of a defamation to push other Muslims to excommunicate you or even assassinate you. Even here on NL, i 've had this experience, but thank God i live in a country that protect my right to expression.

That possibility is not excluded, even in the article.

That said, it's hard to imagine Islam without extremism, the 'extremists' are simply following doctrine....

But more grease to your elbow and good lucking. The sooner y'all reform, the better for us all. Look at the xtians, their folly was once...well.....

Note I say all this coming from a muslim family myself. I can never say I was ever a proper muslim, but I do know what it's like to be in those climes

Joyful77:
Bigots have started again!

When Eric Rudolph carried out several bombings and killed people in America for leading anti Christian lives like aborting and subscribing to homosexuality; nobody blamed it on Christianity!!

The German pilot, Andrea Lubitz recently wasted 150 lives by crashing his flight on purpose in the French Alps. They said it was due to psychological problems! Nonsense!! I'm sure the world media would be upside down by now if he had been a Muslim!!

Now that Muslims are involved, hypocrites will blame it on Islam

What are you smoking?

Which crowd do you think you're addressing here? Do not take us for eediots abeg...

Have you read the Koran?

Do you want me to quote the myriad instances it asks for 'justice' to be meted out to kafirs and such? Or do you deny this?? Your own Imam masters do not deny this, so please do not waste our time with such nonsense. (BTW, if I did, this thread would become faaaaaaar too long. And that's without diving into the hadiths....)



And no one says xtianity is exactly innocent as well. However, in today's world, compared to you guys they look like Gandhi on steroids. Or weed, more likely

Face your own wahala.

Speaking of hypocrisy, you have the gall to call people 'bigots' whilst you defend this nonsense.....'Bigotry' was one of the many less than noble terms coined to describe islam......look it up...

So, while electioneering

guardian: Bangladesh blogger becomes second to be murdered in a month

Washiqur Rahman’s murder is latest attack on progressive activists following similar killing of American atheist blogger in February

A blogger known for his atheist views has been stabbed to death in Bangladesh, in the latest of a series of attacks on independent writers in the developing south Asian nation.

Washiqur Rahman, 27, died of serious injuries inflicted in the assault on Monday morning in Dhaka, the capital.

Police have arrested two men for the murder, which comes just weeks after an American atheist blogger was killed in Dhaka, in a crime that triggered international outrage.


Local police chief Wahidul Islam told Agence France-Presse the victim had been “brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards [460 metres] from his home at Dhaka’s Begunbari area”.

Islam said the two detained men were arrested immediately after the attack as they tried to flee the scene.

The suspects have so far been identified only as Zikrullah, said to be a student at a religious school near the city of Chittagong, and Ariful Islam, who police say was studying at the Darul Ulum religious school in Dhaka. Police are hunting a third man.

“Those who killed him differed on his ideologies about religion. He was not an atheist. He was a believer. But the way he followed religion was different from the way radical groups insist,” Biplob Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan police, told the Guardian.

However, Tamanna Setu, a friend of Rahman said: “He used to write a satirical column on facebook about against believers. He was an atheist. His killing has to be connected to his writing,”

One social media activist said that he used to write “against religious fundamentalism”.

“It appeared Rahman used to write using a pen name, Kutshit Hasher Chhana [Ugly Duckling],” Imran Sarker, head of the Blogger and Online Activists Network in Bangladesh, said. “He was a progressive free thinker and was against religious fundamentalism.”

Ibrahim Khalil, a fellow blogger who knew Rahman through events they organised, said Rahman was a “progressive” who wrote against religious extremism and repression of ethnic minorities.

“I can say he was a very humble man,” Khalil said.

The Dhaka Tribune reported that the dead man was a member of eight Facebook group pages including Atheist Bangladesh.

Rahman, who worked at a travel agency as an IT manager, is the third such blogger to have been murdered in the Muslim-majority country in the past two years.

Atheist blogger Avijit Roy 'was not just a person … he was a movement'

Police have also arrested a suspect over the killing in February of American atheist writer and blogger Avijit Roy.

Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants near Dhaka University as he and his wife were returning from a book fair last month. His wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, suffered head injuries and lost a finger. She later returned to the US for treatment.

“While Avijit and I were being ruthlessly attacked, the local police stood close by and did not act,” Rafida told Reuters.

Roy’s death sparked uproar at home and abroad, with hundreds of secular activists protesting for days to demand justice. They also criticised the country’s government for not doing enough to protect secularist writers.

An adviser to Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, appeared in comments earlier this month to pass the blame for the murder of Roy on to the police.

“Identify the black sheep among the force and bring them under law and justice to uphold your image,” HT Imam told senior officers.

A suspect in the killing, named as Farabi Shafiur Rahman, had previously threatened Roy several times, including on Facebook, where he said Roy would be killed upon his arrival in Dhaka. Rahman was arrested in 2013 for making threats to a cleric for administering Islamic funeral rites to another atheist blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was murdered.

Media group Reporters Without Borders rated Bangladesh 146th among 180 countries in a ranking of press freedom last year.

In 2004, assailants attacked Bangladeshi writer Humayun Azad, also with machetes. Azad survived the attack, but died in mysterious circumstances later that year in Germany, where he had gone on an academic visit.

Political violence in recent months has claimed the lives of more than 100 people and left hundreds more injured. Clashes have pitted activists from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), which boycotted general elections a year ago, and other parties against security forces. The latest protests have been called by Khaleda Zia, leader of the BNP, who wants Hasina to resign and call fresh polls. Hasina has said her government would remain in office until her term ends in 2019. Allies of the BNP include Islamist parties.

The country of more than 160 million people has struggled to resolve profound disagreements over the role of religion in politics and society in recent years

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/blogger-hacked-death-bangladesh-dhaka

Same old, same old

Is it me, or does islam turn otherwise decent people into barbarians?

timmy2409:
And I thought I was f*cked up... Jizzus

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/

I went from celebrating GMB to wanting to jump off a bridge

I don't even want to congratulate naija anymore..