Editing Shafiur Rahman Farabi

'''Farabi Shafiur Rahman''' or '''Shafiur Rahman Farabi''' (Bengali: ফারাবি শফিউর রহমান, শফিউর রহমান ফারাবী)<ref>{{cite web |title=কে এই শফিউর রহমান ফারাবী? কেন তার মুক্তির দাবি উঠছে বিভিন্ন মহলে? |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=IrEQQQgngI2ykCtj&v=uEz-tC0mRl4 |publisher=Face The People YouTube Page |accessdate=11 March 2025 |date=22 December 2024}}</ref><ref name=b>{{cite news |title=কে এই ফারাবি, কী তার মিশন! |url=https://www.banglanews24.com/cat/news/bd/373187.details |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=banglanews24.com |date=3 March 2015 |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh Avijit Roy murder: Five sentenced to die for machete attack on blogger |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56082108 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=[[BBC]] |date=16 February 2021}}</ref> (born 1986) is [[Bangladesh]]i Bengali online Islamist blogger, activist and writer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh police arrest suspect in blogger’s murder |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/3/2/bangladesh-police-arrest-suspect-in-bloggers-murder |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=روزنامہ دنیا :- دنیا میرے آگے:-بنگلہ دیش میں امریکی بلاگر کے قتل کا مرکزی ملزم گرفتار |url=https://dunya.com.pk/index.php/dunya-meray-aagay/2015-03-03/531260 |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Roznama Dunya: روزنامہ دنیا :- |language=en}}</ref> He is said to be a member of [[:en:Hizb ut-Tahrir (Bangladesh)|Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=কে এই ফারাবী |url=https://www.jagonews24.com/national/news/16862 |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Jagonews24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Гуманисты потрясены убийством светского активиста и писателя Авижита Роя |url=https://humanists.international/ru/2015/02/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8B-%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F-%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%8F/?lang=zh-hans |publisher=Humanists International |accessdate=20 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=В Бангладеш приговорили к смерти пятерых экстремистов - MigNews - Новости Израиля и Мира на русском языке |url=https://mignews.com/news/disasters/v-bangladesh-prigovorili-k-smerti-piaterykh-ekstremistov.html |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=MIGNEWS.COM - MigNews - Новости Израиля и Мира на русском языке |date=17 February 2021 |language=ru}}</ref> He used to write in blog and Facebook against Anti-Islamist secular blogger who used to criticize and moke Islam.<ref>{{cite news |title=القبض على قاتل المدون الأمريكي في بنغلادش |url=https://arabic.rt.com/news/775725-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A/ |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=RT Arabic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief Sketch of Shafiur Rahman Farabi: Bangladesh’s Online Jihadist Troll |url=https://jamestown.org/program/a-brief-sketch-of-shafiur-rahman-farabi-bangladeshs-online-jihadist-troll/ |website=jamestown.org|publisher=[[Jamestown Foundation]] |accessdate=22 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Allchin |first1=Joseph |title=Many Rivers, One Sea: Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-84904-874-3 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=CDqdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&dq=Shafiur+Rahman+Farabi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib8MT324KMAxXsT2cHHVxFCRAQ6AF6BAgLEAM |accessdate=11 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life==
29-year-old Shafiur Rahman Farabi's father's name is deceased Ferdousur Rahman.  He was born in 1986 at Baravila Kumarsheel Mor Kalaishripara village under Sadar Thana of Brahmanbaria District. In 1996, he passed Class V from Railway Government Primary School, Kishoreganj District, [[:en:Kendua Joyhari Spry Government High School|Kendua Jaihari Sky Government High School]] SSC in 2001 and HSC from Notre Dame College, Dhaka in 2005.  His studies were stopped for two years due to mental problems.<ref name=k>{{cite news |title=কে এই ফারাবী? |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/national/2015/03/03/194342 |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=www.kalerkantho.com |date=March 2015}}</ref> Admitted in Physics in Chittagong University in 2005-2006 session.  In 2015 before prison, he was studying in his fourth year in this university.<ref name=k/><ref>{{cite news |title=যে কারণে ফাঁসি হয়নি ফারাবীর |url=https://www.banglanews24.com/law-court/news/bd/841547.details |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=banglanews24.com |date=16 February 2021 |language=bn}}</ref>

==Blogging==
While studying at Chittagong University in 2010, Farabi was also arrested along with 24 students in the case of student protests against the salary increase of the authorities. Later, he was released on bail after spending a month in jail.<ref name=k/> Meanwhile, Farabi got involved with various organizations since he was admitted to the university.  He was arrested several times earlier due to such incidents.<ref name=k/> Apart from this, he wrote to another Facebook friend of his by posting a picture with Abhijit Roy's wife and daughter and introducing them, this is the picture of Abhijit Roy, his wife Bonya Ahmed and his daughter.  They all live in America.<ref name=k/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Willgress |first1=Lydia |title=Islamic extremist accused of U.S. blogger's murder appears in court |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977481/Islamic-extremist-accused-American-blogger-s-bloody-murder-appears-court-prepares-send-FBI-team-Bangladesh.html |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=Mail Online |date=3 March 2015}}</ref> Earlier, after the murder of blogger Razib, Farabi was arrested with a provocative status on Facebook. On March 15, 2014, Farabi wrote on his Facebook page, "There is nothing new.  Abhijit Roy's books are all copy-pasted from websites run by Christian Missionaries.    Abhijit Roy steals the writings of this website and then translates it into Bengali and continues it under his own name.  However, this Rokmari.com website is a sister concern of a different group. The office address of this Rokomari website is.."<ref name=b/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mazumder |first1=Nirjhar |title=Constructing terrorism a Critical Discourse Analysis on the construction of terrorism in Bangladeshi English-Language newspaper editorials |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1259799/FULLTEXT01.pdf |publisher=Diva portal |accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Silencing the Minority through Domination in Social Media Platform: Impact on the Pluralistic Bangladeshi Society |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3326478 |publisher=ssrn |accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wolf |first1=Siegfried O. |title=The Killing of Avijit Roy: Silencing free-thinking and progressive conscience in Bangladesh |url=https://fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/3663/ |publisher=South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) |accessdate=11 March 2025 |date=March 2015}}</ref> Farabi also threatened to remove Abhijit Roy's book from the website 'Rokomari.com', which has been operating on behalf of the extremists at various times.<ref name=k/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shajahan |first1=Sadril |title=Social media and the culture of online public opinion: A study on the bloggers of Bangla blogosphere |url=http://reposit.library.du.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1522 |publisher=reposit.library.du.ac.bd |accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Alam |first1=Shahidul |title=Tolerating Death in a Culture of Intolerance |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24481930 |publisher=Economic and Political Weekly, 11-14, 2015 |accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref> In the initial interrogation, Farabi also told the RAB detectives that for three-four years he has been very popular by writing about Islamic thoughts on various blogs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaffer |first1=Ryan |title=Islamist attacks against secular bloggers in Bangladesh |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429316845-14/islamist-attacks-secular-bloggers-bangladesh-ryan-shaffer |publisher=Taylor & Francis |accessdate=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Eller |first1=Jack David |last2=Khazaal |first2=Natalie |title=Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World |date=2024 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-040-10213-8 |url=https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=HlsOEQAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA2013&dq=Saifur+Rahman+Farabi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGsIeo3YKMAxUDSmwGHZEFFzYQ6AF6BAgKEAM |accessdate=11 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref>  In the meantime, he started opposing various blogs of alleged atheist bloggers against his ideology.<ref name=k/> This is how his disagreements arise over religion against bloggers like Thaba Baba (blogger [[:en:Ahmed Rajib Haider| Ahmed Rajib Haider]]), [[:en:Asif Mohiuddin|Asif Mohiuddin]], [[Avijit Roy]], [[:en:Taslima Nasrin|Taslima Nasreen]], Daripalla Dhamadham (Storming scale), Digambar-Payagambar (Nude Prophet), Santunu Mahapatra, Agniveen, Allama Shaitan (honourable devil) (Mashiur Rahman), Santunu Adim, Pangan Devata and Hindu Yoddha.<ref name=k/>

==Cases==
In 2016, he was arrested in [[Avijit Roy]] murder case as a suspect,<ref>{{cite news |last1=প্রতিবেদকঢাকা |first1=নিজস্ব |title=শফিউর রহমান ফারাবীর সাত বছরের কারাদণ্ড |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/amp/story/bangladesh/zuthpbk8a8 |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Prothomalo |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh police arrest suspect in blogger’s murder |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/3/2/bangladesh-police-arrest-suspect-in-bloggers-murder |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hammadi |first1=Saad |last2=Tran |first2=Mark |title=Bangladesh authorities arrest man over atheist blogger's murder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/bangladesh-authorities-arrest-man-atheist-bloggers-murder-avijit-roy |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=2 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=ढाका में एक और ब्लॉगर की हत्या |url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/world/other-countries/in-dhaka-killing-another-blogger/articleshow/46747551.cms |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Navbharat Times |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mickolus |first1=Edward |title=Terrorism, 2013-2015: A Worldwide Chronology |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-6437-8 |page=344 |url=https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=D6zPDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA344&dq=Shafiur+Rahman+Farabi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib8MT324KMAxXsT2cHHVxFCRAQ6AF6BAgJEAM |accessdate=11 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> 
as he wrote on Facebook, “Avijit lives in America. It is not possible to kill him now. But he will be killed when he will be back in the country.”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/world/asia/bangladesh-blogger-avijit-roy.html|title=Bangladeshi Police Arrest Suspect in Blogger’s Killing|first1=Julfikar Ali|last1=Manik|first2=Nida|last2=Najar|date=2 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Arrest made in slaying of Bangladeshi American blogger Avijit Roy |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-bangladesh-blogger-arrest-20150302-story.html |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Arrest in Bangladesh over blogger murder – DW – 03/02/2015 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-police-arrest-suspect-over-murder-of-blogger-avijit-roy/a-18288424 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=dw.com |language=en}}</ref> He also claimed [[Sheikh Hasina]] to be an atheist in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=একযুগ আগে হাসিনাকে নাস্তিক বলে আখ্যা দিয়েছেন ব্লগার শফিউর রহমান ফারাবি! Shafiur Rahman Farabi |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=5aRafgX7G1czOPrJ&v=-HhY8cAJ9C0 |accessdate=20 December 2024 |date=22 November 2024}}</ref> Farabi also told RAB that on February 26 around 2.30 am, the day Abhijit was killed, he was sitting at his home working on his computer and chatting on Facebook.  At that time, his Facebook friends asked to watch TV by making comments.  A day or two later, when his involvement in Abhijit's murder was published in the newspaper, his mother asked him to leave the house and go somewhere else.<ref name=k/><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh captures ‘prime suspect’ in writer's murder |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/bangladesh-captures-prime-suspect-in-writers-murder-20150302 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=News24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Iyengar |first1=Rishi |title=Suspect Held in Atheist Blogger's Murder |url=https://time.com/3728029/bangladesh-blogger-avijit-roy-murder-suspect-arrested/ |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=TIME |date=2 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh Arrests Main Suspect in US Blogger's Killing |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/bangladesh-arrests-main-suspect-in-us-bloggers-killing/2664235.html |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=Voice of America |date=2 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=5 to die for killing Avijit |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/court/5-walk-gallows-killing-blogger-avijit-202480 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=The Business Standard |date=16 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Payne |first1=Samantha |title=Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy murder: Prime suspect Farabi Shafiur Rahman arrested |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bangladeshi-blogger-avijit-roy-murder-prime-suspect-farabi-shafiur-rahman-arrested-1490062 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=International Business Times UK |date=2 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh arrests suspect in murder of American blogger Avijit Roy - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bangladesh-arrest-suspect-american-blogger-avijit-roy-murder/ |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=www.cbsnews.com |date=2 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bangladesh arrests main suspect in US blogger murder |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/11444022/Bangladesh-arrests-main-suspect-in-US-blogger-murder.html |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=2 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref> He was also filed in case of Killing Ananta Bijay Dash and released from it in march 2022.<ref>{{cite news |title=অনন্ত বিজয় হত্যা: যে কারণে ফারাবী খালাস |url=https://bangla.bdnews24.com/samagrabangladesh/article2038642.bdnews |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=অনন্ত বিজয় হত্যা: যে কারণে ফারাবী খালাস |issue=Bdnews24 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Farabi admits of threats to kill Avijit: Rab |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/online/news/farabi-admits-threats-kill-avijit-rab-4668 |accessdate=11 March 2025 |work=The Daily Star |date=2 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref> In 30 January 2023, he got 7 years jail in case of Avijit Roy murder.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who is Farabi? |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/bangladesh-others/95605/who-is-farabi |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=سومین وبلاگ نویس در بنگلادش به قتل رسید |url=https://www.irna.ir/news/81605437/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%AF-%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84-%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=ایرنا |date=12 May 2015 |language=fa}}</ref>

==Support==
Bangladeshi Islamists demanded his release in December 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=মিথ্যা মা'মলায় কা'রাব'ন্দিদের মুক্তি দিন {{!}} SHAFIUR RAHMAN {{!}} Bangladesh Pratidin |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=eztjqea0-HwCFTUC&v=ngpk2LQBHeA |accessdate=20 December 2024 |work=Bangladesh Pratidin |date=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='মিথ্যা কারণ দেখিয়ে শফিউর রহমান ফারাবিকে শা স্তি দিয়েছে' {{!}} Farabi Shafiur Rahman {{!}} Samakal News |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=b1sTjVMrfeI84vLw&v=Z5ozUV1xPzE |publisher=Samakal News |accessdate=20 December 2024 |date=22 November 2024}}</ref> [[:en:Sheikh Ahmadullah|Sheikh Ahmadullah]] claimed that, it is not logical to punnish someone like Farabi imprisonment for giving threat without proving that he is related to the assassination, and Farabi gave threat to Avijit because Avijit mocked Muhammad's wife [[:en:Maria al-Qibtiyya|Mary the Copt]] in extreme slang language.<ref>{{cite web |title=শফিউর রহমান ফারাবি ভাইয়ের মুক্তির দাবি • Shaikh Ahmadullah waz 2021• Deen Network |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=Gs5TTzldhMynWTIP&v=XtTBwBhRftA&feature=youtu.be |publisher=As Sunnah Foundation |accessdate=20 December 2024 |date=21 February 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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