En engelskprofessor blev angrebet og dræbt på åben gade i Bangladesh lørdag morgen. Han blev den foreløbig sidste i rækken, som jihadister hakket ihjel. IS påtog sig ansvaret. Alligevel benægter myndighederne at IS opererer i landet.

Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was an English professor at Rajshahi University.

“ISIS fighters assassinated a University professor for calling to atheism in the city of Rajshahi in Bangladesh,” a statement from the group said.

Myndighederne lader til at benægte problemerne. Ingen er arresteret for striben av drab på bloggere.

Earlier this month, Bangladesh Law and Justice Minister Anisul Huq told CNN that it was “safe to say that there is no existence of ISIS in this country.”

Huq also dismissed reports “about the claim of ISIS that they’re trying to make Bangladesh their base headquarter for operations in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.”

“That’s their claim, one can claim anything,” he said.

Man ser ikke noget motiv for drabet. Øjensynlig. Siddique var ikke ateist som bloggerne. Men han var et kultiveret menneske, som det fremgår af billedet. Han forsøgte at opdrage studenterne og lære dem kultur. Det er nog til at blive udpeget som fjende af IS.

“Siddique was very active organizing cultural events in the university,” Islam said. “He was also planning to open a music school in his home village, Bagmara.”

The village “is a hotbed of JMB militants,” police said. JMB refers to Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, a fundamentalist Islamic organization in the nation.

http://wtvr.com/2016/04/23/rajshahi-university-english-professor-hacked-to-death-near-his-home/