As I’m sure most of you know, Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker, was murdered last week for making a film (called “Submission”) that criticized Islam. The Netherlands has become a hot-spot of the crash of civilizations – they have a big problem on their hands – as the murders of Pim Fortyn and now Van Gogh prove. What the hell is to be done? It’s a scary situation.
Here’s a very interesting column about Van Gogh by someone who knew him.
Here’s another very good column on Van Gogh, written by Irshad Manji, a self-described Muslim dissident.
Thanks for the links.
If you don’t mind, here is a link to Belmont Club–who has additional links, including a Dutch blog on the reactions to his murder. (I’m awful with links so I’ll just post the url)
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/11/stranger-in-strange-land-dutch-blog.html
You sure know your stuff, Sheila. We had a group of Muslim teens from the Netherlands tour upstate New York this past summer; the documentary filmmaker chronicling them Stateside told me that by sheer numbers they will be THE ruling class there someday. I had the pleasure of making sure they took in a real Americana 4th of July celebration…