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The pattern in the murderous attacks on freethinkers in Bangladesh is unmistakable: Machete-wielding gangs, sometimes masked, waylay victims and butcher them in the middle of crowded streets, making sure the message of fear and impunity hits home. The murder of Ananta Bijoy Das this week, the third secularist blogger-writer to be killed since February, was no different.The killing of Das and others is part of a wider struggle for the soul of Bangladesh, where irreverent secularists and intolerant Islamist groups are fighting a blood-soaked ideological battle that may well decide whether the country upholds its founding secularist principles or embraces religious bigotry.The murders have sparked mass public protests because much of Bangladeshs secular tradition is still alive and strong.But Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, known to be sympathetic to liberal intellectuals, is
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