Wake up call in Bangladesh as another Gay right activist is killed

Gay rights activist killed in Bangladesh in suspected Islamist attack
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DHAKA, April 25 Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading gay rights activist and a friend in an apartment in the Bangladeshi capital on Monday, police said. The attack came two days after a university professor was killed in similar fashion on Saturday in an attack claimed by the Islamic State. Five or six people went to the apartment of Julhas Mannan, an editor of Bangladesh's first magazine for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community "Rupban", and attacked him and a friend with sharp weapons, Dhaka city police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder said, quoting witnesses. Mannan previously worked at the U embassy. They also wounded a security guard, who was undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Witnesses said the attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they fled the scene. The Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted. Five secular bloggers and a publisher have been hacked to death in Bangladesh since February last year. A group affiliated with al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger earlier this month. Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners, and attacks on mosques and Christian priests in Bangladesh since September. The government has denied that the Islamic State or al Qaeda groups have a presence in the country and said homegrown Islamist radicals are behind the recent attacks. At least five militants have been killed in shootouts since November as security forces have stepped up a crackdown on Islamist militants looking to establish a sharia-based Muslim state. (Reporting by Ruma
Paul, Editing by Richard Balmfofth) 

Works Cited:

Paul, Ruma. "Gay Rights Activist Killed in Bangladesh in Suspected Islamist Attack." Reuters. N.p., 25 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2016.

Response:

In a world where the number of individuals claiming to be LGBT is consistently growing, the fashion in which they are treated, and the way that we respond to them as individuals is always going to be critical in the way future generations will treat them. In the case of this article, terrorist groups such as al Qaeda or the Islamic State will always be persecuting people or groups that oppose their ideas and ways. However, with 6 reported attacks within the last year against LGBT people and allys, this is definitely an increasing number that is subject to grow exponentially. I'm not saying that when the Bangladeshi government claims to have no presence of terrorist organizations in their country that they are wrong, but the way in which they can handle the situation can be approached differently. Now the article doesn't mention what Bangladesh did if anything to prevent further attacks, but based on the data, most likely not much. Tracing back to my original thought, if the Bangladeshi government continues to sustain these attacks whilst not doing anything to help their people, then the cause for a government that protects its people is lost. The way they handle this situation right now, will affect the way future generations will handle similar if not the same situations in future conflicts.

Referring to bias on the article, the article does seem to appear more liberal in its views, making conservative groups and their affiliations appear to be more primitive and less intelligent possibly.