Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Posted: 6:08 AM EST (1108 GMT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- A controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, has been murdered in Amsterdam, police said.
Amsterdam police said Van Gogh had been stabbed and shot in the centre of the city Tuesday.
Van Gogh's short feature film "Submission" angered some Dutch Muslims for its portrayal of a Muslim woman who is abused by her husband.
Police said they arrested a man at the scene after an exchange of gunfire in which the suspect wounded a police officer. The suspect was wounded in his leg.
Some Dutch media said Van Gogh had been planning to make a film about anti-immigration populist Pim Fortuyn, who was gunned down by an animal rights activist in May 2002, days before his grass-roots party stormed to second place in a general election.
Van Gogh received death threats after "Submission" was broadcast earlier this year. He made the film with Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who won Dutch citizenship after fleeing an arranged marriage 12 years ago.
She has been under police protection after receiving death threats.
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions make me sick
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
They all claim that they have the truth
That'll set you free
Just give 'em all your money and they'll set you free
Free for a fee
They all claim that they have 'the Answer'
When they don't even know the Question
They're just a bunch of liars
They just want your money
They just want your consciousness
[Chorus]
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna BLEAH
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me ILL
I think I'll wait untill the police say the assailant was a Muslim before leaping to conclusions. It's true that Van Gogh recieved death threats but people get murdered everyday for reasons asides from religion.
Hope you have reasonably nice weather to vote today.
saucy_son said:
gives me one more reason to go out and vote against anyone who might entertain the idea of creating a theocracy here.
Might want to think about voting for a man who actually overthrew a theocracy and installed a pluralistic democracy, rather than for a man who proposes to give another terror-supporting theocracy uranium in exchange for promises not to build a bomb.
stockula
Anchorage, AK
May 2003
NOV 02, 2004 05:19 AM