Joseph Allchin
Bangladesh’s Islamists Call for Death of ‘Atheist Bloggers’
On April 6, hundreds of thousands of men and boys spread out across Bangladesh's sweltering capital, Dhaka, to call for, among other things, the hanging of atheists. The mass mobilization of Islamists was spurred by a handful of “atheist” bloggers who...
Explaining Bangladesh's Month of Massive Street Protests and Violence
The Shabagh protests are a liberal street festival with a morbid demand. Nooses and chants calling for accused war criminals to be hanged have become shorthand in a battle of what defines the nation, an unfinished struggle of identity for a pluralistic...
