Posted on 11/02/2004 2:32:25 AM PST by TFine80
Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture recently, has been shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch media report. Police said they had arrested a man at the scene after an exchange of gunfire.
Van Gogh, 47, had received death threats after his film Submission, on violence against women in Islamic societies, was shown on Dutch TV.
The film was made with liberal Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who fled an arranged marriage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been under police protection since the film was aired. She has also received death threats and has renounced the Islamic faith.
Van Gogh's production company told the Dutch news agency ANP that he had been shot dead. Police did not identify the victim.
Both the suspect and a policeman suffered bullet wounds and are now in hospital.
Van Gogh - who was related to the famous Dutch painter - had also been making a film about Pim Fortuyn, the populist right-wing, anti-immigration politician assassinated in May 2002.
More like Allahu Fubar! Islamofascism is a virulent, metastatic cancer which must be resected...
Nearly one million Muslims in the Netherlands
http://www.cbs.nl/en/publications/articles/webmagazine/2004/1543k.htm
But,how could this be? Islam is a religion of peace!</sarcasm>
???????...Typical Leftists, hiding the Identity of the Perp...N/S. American, European, Chinese or Arab?
This was to be the Official Canadian/British U.N. educational film?
/Sarcasm EUNESCO?
Outrage bump.
Sure to be followed by massive anti-Islamic demos throughout Europe ... NOT.
I'm surprised they even used the word "murder". Was it done by an "insurgent" or a "freedom fighter".
I've read that Rotterdam is now 50 per cent Muslim.
The Euro weenies have a death wish. Will they ever fight back or take action or just be bred out of existence.
I hope the Islamo fascists in France start killing the Frenchies. I wonder if Chirac would do anything?
Condi Rice said something at the conclusion of an interview the other day, that terrorists need opression, but demcracies don't.
Sorry I can't recall it word for word. Somebody? It was a great line.
I remember the woman that the film was about. She wrote an article in Readers Digest a couple years ago on how she escaped Samoli and the horrors endured by the young women their..It was pretty terrible. Guess they don't want the world to know just how peace loving they are. The religion of peace. What a load of crap.
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The Eurinals know that there is a price for their dhimmitude. They have already surrendered their freedom and liberty to socialism, it is just a change of masters. They will gladly sacrifice many millions. Heck, they've promoted human sacrifice to a new level these last 100 years.
Which religion is not like the others?
We let them in too.
Our nanny, who provides daycare for our 2yo, is Swedish. She has a LOT of stories about the Muslim immigrant population -- especially around the southern city of Malmo(near Denmark). They've basically fled their toilet in Bosnia to recreate the same toilet in Sweden that they fled -- and if they don't get their way they scream "racism ", even when the issue is how much public $$$$$ they think they're entitled to. Apparently, they've taken a page from the Jesse Jackson playbook
I commisurate often, but diversity does have its downside.
>> Was it really "controversial" or merely expository?
Muslims tend to make anything truly expository about there religion, "controversial", so yes, both/and. Excellent point.
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