[kinoxi]

For example, he started a scatological magazine, The Dirty Paper, at his primary school.

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[Cicero]

Yes, Theo Van Gogh was a thoroughly obnoxious, even despicable, man.

Oddly, that made his murder even more of an event. The murder of a pious Christian probably would have passed unnoticed. People might even have thought that he deserved it. But Dutch liberals were shocked when a man like Theo Van Gogh was murdered.