article_snippet: An Islamic extremist was paraded in court today after an American blogger was hacked to death with a machete in the middle of the street in Bangladesh.
article_snippet: The 43-year-old's family has accused Bangladeshi authorities of failing to do enough to protect him after him received death threats for him anti-religious writing.
article_snippet: Initial information indicates this was done by extremist religious group.'
article_snippet: He was on He way back from a university book fair in Bangladesh when He was targeted on Thursday by at least two men over He opposition to religious extremism.
article_snippet: at least two men over his opposition to religious extremism sliced He head with the long blades before turning on He wife, Rafida Ahmed, and cutting her finger off when her tried to save He.
article_snippet: The naturalised U.S. citizen, who was a bio-engineer as well as a blogger, had been receiving death threats online for years.
article_snippet: When the fundamentalists threatened, I informed the Inspector General of Police and Deputy Inspector General of Police,' his son said. 'whose murder has proved the fundamentalists utter failure.'
article_snippet: the fundamentalists also said his son was singled out because his son is a U.S. citizen - and characterized the vicious killing as 'revenge' for attacks on ISIS in Syria.
article_snippet: Police have expressed shock that extremists struck at a university book fair, which was heavily guarded.
article_snippet: In 2013, religious extremists targeted several secular bloggers who had demanded capital punishment for Islamist leaders convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh's war for independence.
article_snippet: In 2004, Humayun Azad, a secular writer and professor at Dhaka University, was also attacked by militants while returning home from a Dhaka book fair.