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Before the flames are started, Van Gogh did not deserve to die for what he did. I hope his murderer is dispatched in exactly the same way (knowing he won't be).
His death shows that it’s something that everyone who values freedom should worry about. Van Gogh's death has less to do with his freedom being assaulted but the beliefs of others being assaulted by him. What point is made in dressing womaen in diaphonous Muslim veils with Koranic verses scribbled on their body? Can not that point be made in a way that doesn't blaspheme the religion? The freedom our Founding Fathers won for us was mainly of a political nature. They had no intention of underwriting the completely gratuitous degrading debauchery of a Howard Stern, a Maplethorpe or a Van Gogh. That is not worth the expense of the life of good men, and good men don't expend their life that way. No, Van Gogh did not deserve to die but anyone who factors in human nature to the way they view the world will not be befuddled by Van Gogh's useless death. It will be recognized that he gave grievous offense to many, many people (not, apparently, just Muslims).

It will be recognized that he gave grievous offense to many, many people (not, apparently, just Muslims).

You are fighting a straw man of your own making. The article itself reveals that in the past van Gough had offended both Christians and Jews, who filed formal complains against him.

That what it's all about - civilised people choose civilised ways to deal with an offender, savages would shoot him several times, stabb him repeatedly, slit his throat with a butcher knife, and leave a note containing verses from the Qur’an on the body.

And this in deed is something that everyone who values freedom should worry about. Isn't it?

"Can not that point be made in a way that doesn't blaspheme the religion?"

Buddy, you are a sap. Where have you been the last three years? Do you even know that we have a world war on our hands, and it is against radical (read: faithful to the bloodthirsty Koran) Islam?

Blaspheme their religion, huh? Would it blaspheme their religion if I pointed out that their great prophet Mohammad was a vicious, looney child molestor? Would I deserve to be shot and stabbed to death because I express my honest opinion that Allah can go suck goat b***s before I'll ever bow down to him?

Listen, the creep who murdered Van Gogh in cold blood and pinned a page of that hateful "holy book" to his body should fry like the pig he is. There was NO justification or excuse for the murder. The ghost of Van Gogh, like that of Pim Fortyn before him, cries out for justice against the lunatic leftist/Islamo-Fascist cabal who are threatening to turn the Netherlands into the next Kosovo.