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Enemies, foreign and domestic
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20050715.shtml ^ | July 15, 2005 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 07/15/2005 2:10:12 AM PDT by mal

Last Nov. 2, Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker and descendant of the painter, was cycling through Amsterdam. He was accosted by Mohammed Bouyeri, who shot him six times as Van Gogh pleaded ``We can still talk about it! Don't do it!'' Bouyeri then cut his throat with a kitchen knife, severing his head all the way to his spine. Bouyeri was not done. He then took a five-page Islamist manifesto and with his knife impaled it on van Gogh's chest.

On trial now in Holland, Bouyeri is unrepentant. In court he turned to van Gogh's grieving mother, and with infinite cruelty said to her, ``I do not feel your pain.''

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bouyeri; jihadineurope; krauthammer

1 posted on 07/15/2005 2:10:12 AM PDT by mal
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To: mal
But what about the vast majority of European Muslims, the 99 percent who are peace-loving and not engaged in terror?

And how many "peace-loving" Muslims privately support the goals and aims of al-Qaeda...?

2 posted on 07/15/2005 2:22:30 AM PDT by freebilly (Vast Right Wing Conservative Christian Heterosexual Conspirator....)
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