{"id":73859,"date":"2016-04-08T04:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T08:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73859"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:50:17","slug":"bangladesh-slaying-us-considers-refuge-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/08\/bangladesh-slaying-us-considers-refuge-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bangladesh slaying, US considers refuge for bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nazimuddin<\/a>
Nazimuddin Samad, a 28 year-old law student in Bangladesh was killed on Wednesday over criticism of Islam.
(Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON\u2014The United States condemned as \u201cbarbaric\u201d Thursday the latest killing in Bangladesh of an outspoken opponent of radical Islam and said it is considering granting refuge to a select number of bloggers who face imminent danger.<\/p>\n

Assailants hacked and shot to death 28-year-old law student Nazimuddin Samad on Wednesday night on a street in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. The unidentified attackers shouted \u201cAllahu Akbar,\u201d or \u201cAllah is great,\u201d and escaped by motorcycle.<\/p>\n

At least five secular bloggers and publishers were killed in similar attacks last year. That has heightened concern that religious extremists are getting a foothold in Bangladesh, a Muslim country with traditions of secularism and tolerance, and that authorities are failing to provide protection.<\/p>\n

buy nolvadex online https:\/\/maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/nolvadex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

In December, U.S.-based human rights groups urged the U.<\/p>\n

buy hydroxychloroquine online https:\/\/maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/hydroxychloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n

S. to offer \u201chumanitarian parole\u201d for Bangladeshi writers targeted by extremists for their secular beliefs. Karin Deutsch Karlekar of PEN America reiterated that call to the U.S. and other countries Thursday, saying that Samad’s killing \u201cis a cruel illustration of the costs of inaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner strongly condemned the \u201cbarbaric murder\u201d of Samad and told reporters the U.S. offers \u201cunwavering support to the Bangladeshi people in their struggle against violent extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that humanitarian parole for a select number of bloggers who continue to be under \u201cimminent danger\u201d is one option under consideration, but referred questions on it to the Homeland Security Department.<\/p>\n

Shin Inouye, press secretary at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is responsible for administering such cases, declined to comment about any specific requests for humanitarian parole, citing privacy rules.<\/p>\n

Humanitarian parole is used sparingly to bring a person into the United States for a temporary period of time due to a compelling emergency.<\/p>\n

No group has claimed responsibility for the killing of Samad, a supporter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s secular Awami League party.<\/p>\n

Bangladeshi police said they suspect Samad was targeted for his outspoken atheism and for supporting capital punishment for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Hasina’s government set up special tribunals to try war crimes cases, including against senior leaders of an opposition, Islamist party.<\/p>\n

Hasina’s government has accused the opposition of supporting religious radicals it blames for the attacks on bloggers, minority Shiites, Christians and foreigners. Some of the attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group, but the government dismisses those claims and says the Sunni extremist group has no presence in the country.<\/p>\n

Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley of New York, chair of U.S. congressional Bangladesh Caucus, called the attacks on bloggers \u201cextremely concerning\u201d and said they were having a chilling effect on freedom of religious expression and speech in the South Asian country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON\u2014The United States condemned as \u201cbarbaric\u201d Thursday the latest killing in Bangladesh of an outspoken opponent of radical Islam and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[315,1191,10109,10110,1989,5839,406],"class_list":["post-73859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-asylum","tag-bangladesh","tag-bloggers","tag-criticism","tag-death","tag-islam","tag-united-states","mauthors-matthew-pennington","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286003,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions\/286003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}