{"id":50121,"date":"2015-06-03T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_after_death_threats_bangladeshi_atheist_relocates_to_us\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:30:21","slug":"rns_after_death_threats_bangladeshi_atheist_relocates_to_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50121","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) After death threats, Bangladeshi atheist relocates to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An internationally renowned atheist activist has relocated from India to the U.S. after receiving death threats from an extremist group that has claimed responsibility for at least one of three machete killings of South Asian atheists this year.<\/p>\n<p>Taslima Nasrin, a Bangladeshi gynecologist, novelist and poet, arrived in New York state last Wednesday (May 27). The move was orchestrated by the Center for Inquiry, an organization that promotes secularism and has been working with atheist activists in countries where atheism is unprotected by blasphemy laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtremist groups have been pretty public that they want Taslima killed,\u201d\u009d said Michael de Dora, CFI\u2019s director of public policy and president of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief. \u201cIn the last couple of weeks this has been ramping up and that\u2019s why we were so concerned.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/06\/02\/death-threats-bangladeshi-atheist-relocates-us\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internationally renowned atheist activist has relocated from India to the U.S. after receiving death threats from an extremist group that has claimed responsibility for at least one of three machete killings of South Asian atheists this year. Taslima Nasrin,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50121\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,201,425,355,168,133,161,155,129,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-atheism","category-bangladesh","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}