On February 26 an American-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death by two unidentified assailants in Dhaka. His wife and fellow blogger, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, was with him at the time and was critically injured in the assault. Roy passed away at the Dhaka Medical Centre at 10:30 pm, bdnews24.com reported. Islamist group Ansar Bangla 7 has claimed responsibility for Roy's murder.

"To me, religious extremism is like a highly contagious virus. My own recent experiences in this regard verify the horrific reality that such religious extremism is a virus of faith," he wrote in one of his last published articles according to a BBC report.

He hoped to be able to separate extremism from religion. A completely futile pursuit, in today's world.

"Every where in this [world] only one message I'm getting now a day[s] - "KILL ! KILL!! KILL (by the name of religion and compassionate and most merciful god)!!!", he wrote in an article titled 'A Letter From God'.

Regardless of which religion you place your faith in, it does not advocate murder. Or so believed Roy.