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Vincent van Gogh's great-grandnephew is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Islamic schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with...
...murder suspect, a Dutch Moroccan named Mohammed Bouyeri, was a peripheral member of a radical Islamic group referred to as the Hofstad Network, which is linked to terrorist gangs in Spain and Belgium. A dozen suspected members have since been arrested in the Netherlands, where the death of van Gogh, who often slurred Muslims with unprintable epithets, has forced a tolerant country to rethink its freedoms. --By Andrea Gerlin. With reporting by Lauren Comiteau and Abi Daruvalla
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...days after Van Gogh's death, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's government promised a series of new security measures, as well as proposals to strip extremists of their Dutch passports, deport radical imams, and close down radical mosques. Dutch police believe Mohammed B. was part of a terror cell called the Hofstad Netwerk, whose alleged leader, Syrian Redouan al-Issar, preached at Mohammed B.'s home. Around a dozen alleged members of the cell have been picked up so far, including Samir Azzouz, a Moroccan arrested in the Netherlands this year for allegedly plotting attacks on government and public...
...these developments mean tolerance is backfiring on the Dutch, they're not about to accept the alternative. Van Gogh's murder was such an affront to free speech that Cohen, the Amsterdam mayor who was once the butt of his anti-Semitic jokes, asked demonstrators to gather in Dam Square and make noise. Twenty thousand people came, screaming and banging pots, pans and drums in the damp autumn night. A progressive society isn't about to go down quietly...