article_snippet: An Islamic extremist has been arrested  after an American blogger was hacked to death with a machete in the middle of the street.
article_snippet: Farabi was previously arrested over the murder of another blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haide, in February 2013 but was released on bail.
article_snippet: The arrest comes a day after hundreds of mourners gathered around the blogger's coffin near Dhaka University to pay hundreds of mourners respects. 
article_snippet: People also held a demonstration at the spot where he was killed and chanted slogans demanding 'immediate arrest and quick trial of the perpetrator'.
article_snippet: Witnesses have even said officers and bystanders were there during the murder - but did nothing.
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: Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was killed that year in a similar attack near Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider home in Dhaka after Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider led one such protest demanding capital punishment.
article_snippet: Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider later died in Germany while undergoing treatment.
highlights_snippet: Fundamentalist blogger was arrested in Dhaka earlier today .
  