Bangladeshi Freedom Champion in Peril

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I recently came across an unread e-mail from Richard Benkin, the American champion of Bangladeshi journalist Saleh Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Choudhury is the fearless Muslim newspaper editor who was arrested by Bangladeshi authorities in November 2003 as he prepared to board a flight en route to Israel, where he was planning to deliver an address promoting peaceable relations between Muslims and Jews.

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Bangladeshi Freedom Champion in Peril

R: Fine. Get on with it.

OK. Back to Choudhury's arrest.

For his "crime" (Bangladesh doesn't recognize Israel) and his writings (Choudhury has denounced the rise of jihadism in Bangladesh and has called fo...

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