Posted on 11/12/2004 6:32:39 AM PST by trashcanbred
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of the Dutch Parliament, collaborated with Theo van Gogh on the film "Submission," which deals with Muslim women who suffer abuse. Van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam on Nov. 2, and the son of a Moroccan immigrant has been charged. Hirsi Ali is in hiding under police protection.
My initial reaction of shock and disbelief has given way to a feeling of intense grief. I'm grieving over Theo's death. Grieving because now he can't move to America with his son. Because he had to die to focus attention on the presence of individuals whose religious conviction is many times more valuable than human life. I'm grieving because once again the Netherlands has lost its innocence, an innocence of which Theo was the exponent.
The attacks on America and Spain were dismissed as something that could happen over there, but not here. Theo's naïveté wasn't that it couldn't happen here, but that it couldn't happen to him. He said: "I'm the village idiot; they won't touch me. Be careful, you're the apostate woman." I'm grieving because my friends and I can't congratulate him on his new film "0605," of which he was so proud.
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I had heard this, that he was waiting for his son to grow up. I am not sure why.
Muslim threats to his life.
Here is another piece that states it from http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=8358
"Prior to his death, Van Gogh told his partner Gijs van de Westelaken in production of the film 06/05 that should anything in the near future happen to him, he should take care of the funeral. Van Gogh, upon his recent visit to the United States, indicated that in the end he would leave the Netherlands. He would stay here in the Netherlands until his son was out of school, and then he would move to America."
The legal immigration process for Europeans and for most countries can take years !
On the other hand......
I have been following this story myself. I worked in the Netherlands in both Amsterdam and around a town called Zeist (near Utrect) a number of years ago. One of the people I kept in touch with is a little concerned but thinks this will all calm down.
Sorry I meant Utrecht
Wow, what a couple of heroes...
What a courageous woman!
She denounced Islam to top it all off which normally is a death sentence. Here is her story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3322399.stm
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