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.

"When people cannot read critical texts questioning this propaganda they are more easily deluded by preachers of hatred," BBC quotes Roy from an interview.

His views must be truly outrageous. Why else would he be murdered in cold blood?

He hoped that 'Mukto Mona' would usher in a new society, one that "... would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science", Roy said in an interview with the Bangladesh Daily Star.

Roy's work was blasphemous and bordered on hate speech, they claimed. Have we misinterpreted the meaning of his words as liberalism, instead?