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...When maverick politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated in 2002, the Dutch were relieved that his murderer turned out to be a radical white vegan from the small town of Harderwijk. Like Van Gogh, Fortuyn was critical of Islam - he called it a "backward culture" and demanded that immigrants assimilate into Dutch society - and many people feared his killing was the first salvo in the country's own culture war. But that battle may have finally begun with Van Gogh's murder, allegedly carried out by a Dutch-Moroccan, 26, who is being referred to in the media as Mohammed...
...animal-rights activist and long-term member of an environmental group that legally challenges farmers who seek to expand their operations. A principled vegan who once told an interviewer he couldn't abide the cruelty of baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline Hoogendijk, a director of the Dutch Veganism Association who worked closely with Van der Graaf. Wien van den Brink, head of a farmer's activist group from nearby Putten op de Veluwe...
...maps of their neighborhoods in Van der Graaf's car, and were investigating a videotape that showed the suspect conferring with two others in a city where Fortuyn was speaking earlier on the day of his murder. They are also revisiting the unsolved 1996 murder in a town near Harderwijk of an environmental official found shot in the head. Whatever the details, many Fortuyn supporters contend that by demonizing Fortuyn, established politicians are somehow responsible for fueling the murderous intent of his assassin...
...this began six years ago. Now 200 paintings hang in the Zevenaar plant and two newer Turmac factories at Harderwijk in The Netherlands and near Zurich, Switzerland. Last month 31 of the works began a six-week showing at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the Louvre Palace, which is a pretty good place to hang...
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