An American blogger who was critical of Islam was killed by Muslims who attacked in a “knife-wielding mob.”
Avijit Roy, who was an atheist, was attacked for promoting secularism and pointing out the violence and brutality of Islamic extremism.
“Avijit Roy has been killed the way other free thinker writers were killed in Bangladesh. No freethinker is safe in Bangladesh,” blogger Taslima Nasreen, who left Bangladesh in the mid-1990s after receiving death threats from extremists, told the Christian Post about the killing.
“Islamic terrorists can do whatever they like. They can kill people with no qualms whatsoever.”
BBC News reported that Bangladeshi officials for their role in the murder are now investigating a local Islamist group.
This is not the first time Islamists have attacked bloggers for being critical of Islam. In 2013, one atheist blogger was brutally killed and a second survived a severe beating at the hands of Muslim mob.
ISIS claimed Friday that an American hostage was killed during Jordanian airstrikes on the terrorist group.
“The failed Jordanian aircraft killed an American female hostage,” said the message released through a Jihadist watchdog website. “No mujahid (fighters) was injured in the bombardment, and all praise is due to Allah.”
“The criminal Crusader coalition aircraft bombarded a site outside the city of ar-Raqqah today at noon while the people were performing the Friday prayer,” ISIS said. “The air assaults were continuous on the same location for more than an hour.”
The woman, Kayla Mueller, was taken by the terrorists in 2013. The woman had moved to Syria to help children who were orphaned or separated from their families by the civil war.
She is the fourth American to die at the hands of ISIS. Sources say it’s very possible the terrorists actually executed her so they could blame her death on Jordan through social media outlets.
The White House said American intelligence officials are investigating the claim.
A cameraman working for NBC News has tested positive for Ebola while on assignment with the network’s medical reporter.
NBC Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman had a team of three others working with her in Liberia when the cameraman fell ill with a fever. He self-isolated himself until he could be tested for the virus by Doctors Without Borders who confirmed the infection.
He is being flown to the United States for treatment.
Ashoka Mukpo was the second cameraman for Snyderman and had begun working for the network on Tuesday. He had been working in Liberia and posted on his Facebook page about the situation in Liberia.
“Man oh man i have seen some bad things in the last two weeks of my life,” he wrote. “How unpredictable and fraught with danger life can be. How in some parts of the world, basic levels of help and assistance that we take for granted completely don’t exist for many people. The raw coldness of deprivation and the potential for true darkness that exists in the human experience. I hope that humanity can figure out how we can take care of each other and our world.”
Dr. Snyderman says the amount of virus in Mukpo is low and that he should have a good diagnosis.
An American journalist who was brutally beheaded by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS was the grandson of holocaust survivors who had a passion for the Holy Land.
Steven Sotloff had moved to Israel in 2005 to report on the conditions there and the suffering of the Israeli people by the terrorist groups that surround them on all sides. He also traveled around the middle east reporting on the problems caused by Islamic extremism on the average Arab.
Sotloff was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in August 2013 at the border between Turkey and Syria. Two weeks ago, ISIS showed him in a video and said that they would be killing Sotloff if the U.S. did not stop air strikes against their forces.
Sotloff’s friends in Israel said that he was a passionate reporter and that he said he wanted to live life to the fullest and have “a story [he] could write a book about.” They knew something was wrong in August 2013 when he said he was leaving on a trip for a story and immediately disappeared from social media.
“He was well aware of the risks involved in his work,” a friend identified only as Abigail told Jerusalem Online. “In Syria he was almost killed by stray bullets fired at him.”
Sotloff was 31.
A second American in two days has been reported killed while fighting with the Islamic extremist group ISIS.
Abdirahmaan Muhumed of Minneapolis reportedly died in the same battle as Douglas McArthur McCain whose death was announced yesterday. Muhumed’s family says they’ve received a photo of the 29-year-old’s body but that the State Department has not confirmed it.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said they were working to confirm the man’s death.
The U.S. military has been striking ISIS locations in Iraq as part of a campaign to assist Iraqi and Kurdish forces who are trying to drive the terrorists out of the northern part of Iraq.
Muhumed, who is confirmed to be the father of at least 9 children, told Minnesota Public Radio earlier this year that he was fighting for the terrorists.
A Muslim has to stand up for [what’s] right,” Muhumed wrote in a Jan. 2 message. “I give up this worldly life for Allah.”
He said he was “happy” that people considered him a terrorist.
The FBI reports up to 100 Americans have been confirmed to be fighting for the terrorist group.
The Islamic extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has posted a video online showing the brutal beheading of an American journalist.
James Foley, a reporter working for Agence France-Presse and Boston media company GlobalPost, was taken captive while reporting in Syria November 2012. He was passing through a zone that had been a focal point of Sunni rebel forces when four terrorists stopped his car.
The death of Foley is the first American to have been killed as a result of the Syrian conflict that began in March 2011.
A British man who had joined the terrorist group who spoke in the video using English conducted the killing. The group showed video of a second captured American journalist and said they would kill him if the U.S. continued to make airstrikes against their forces in Iraq.
Foley’s family released a statement saying they were proud of him.
“He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people,” said the statement, which was attributed to Foley’s mother, Diane Foley. She implored the militants to spare the lives of other hostages. “Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world.”
An American tourist in North Korea was detained Friday for “hostile activities” after he left a Bible in his room after checking out.
Jeffrey Edward Fowle is now the third American being held captive by North Korea’s oppressive regime.
The official Korean Central News Agency said that Fowle is being questioned for violating his tourism visa regulations.
“US citizen in custody for committing anti-DPRK (North Korea) hostile activities,” the report reads. “[Fowle] acted in violation of the DPRK (North Korea) law, contrary to the purpose of tourism during his stay. A relevant organ of the DPRK detained him and is investigating him.”
The U.S. Department of State has issued an official warning to Americans who want to visit North Korea. The warning reads in part that being a part of a tour with a North Korean tour guide does not guarantee you will not be detained and arrested by North Korean authorities for actions perfectly legal in the U.S. such as carrying a Bible.
