Theo Van Gogh, whose film ‘Submission’ criticized the treatment of women in Koran-based Muslim societies, was murdered in Amsterdam yesterday while riding his bike. Police arrested a dual Dutch-Moroccan national. Some background:
Friends and associates said Van Gogh, a distant relative of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, had received anonymous death threats after Dutch television aired his controversial short film ‘Submission’ in August. The film featured four women who claimed to have been abused by their Muslim husbands and who wore see-through robes showing their breasts, with texts from the Koran scrawled on their bodies.
Expatica reports on a big rally in support of the murdered film-maker in Amsterdam yesterday.
Here’s an excerpt from Van Gogh’s final interview. And Canadian ‘Muslim dissident’ Irshad Manji, author of the important book ‘The Problem With Islam’, writes about van Gogh’s murder.
