Rafida Bonya Ahmed: Extremist Attack Survivor

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Channel: Freedom From Religion Foundation · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Rafida Bonya Ahmed is a humanist campaigner, author and moderator of the award-winning Bengali blog, Mukto-Mona. She is the widow of Avijit Roy, a well-known Bengladeshi-American atheist activist and writer who was killed in a horrifying attack by radical Islamists in Dhaka on Feb. 26, 2015. She was critically wounded in the attack, but survived, and has been carrying on their secular work. She helps operate the blog Mukto-Mona (Free Thinker) started by Roy, and helps others in peril.

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