article_snippet: (CNN)In an age of reason without religious dogma writings, author Avijit Roy yearned for reason and humanism guided by science.
article_snippet: author Avijit Roy had no place for religious dogma, including from Islam, the main religion of author Avijit Roy native Bangladesh.
article_snippet: Extremists resented author Avijit Roy for openly and regularly criticizing religion in author Avijit Roy blog.
article_snippet: Extremists threatened to kill author Avijit Roy if author Avijit Roy came home from the United States to visit.
article_snippet: Avijit Roy, your voice of reason and your passion for free thinking will never die.
highlights_snippet: Roy yearned for an age of reason without religious dogma .
  
highlights_snippet: Islamist extremists resented an age of reason without religious dogma, threatened to kill an age of reason without religious dogma .