RELIGION OF PEACE: Secular Bangladeshi writer murdered in the street.

Samad, described by Bangladesh police as a masters student at Jagannath University, is the sixth secularist writer or publisher to have been murdered in Dhaka in the last 16 months. Police called the murder a pre-planned attack.

“He was on his way back home from his evening classes when he was circled by a group of three to four people,” Senior Assistant Police Commissioner Nurul Amin of the Dhaka Police, told CNN.

“First the attackers hacked Samad with machetes, then shot him.”

Samad’s offense? Posting on Facebook about “religious fundamentalism, war crimes, minority issues, corruption and injustice against women.”