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international papers What the foreign papers are saying. Holland in Flames Religious violence and terror arrests stun the Netherlands in the afterma th of filmmaker Theo van Gogh's murder. The wave of attacks and counterattacks began with the gruesome slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh as he rode his bicycle t hrough Amsterdam on Nov. A note was pinned to his body with a knife, threateni ng other public figures with death in the name of Islam.
here) in which a veiled M uslim woman, her body inscribed with Quranic verses beneath a semitransp arent full-body veil, addresses Allah with a mixture of anger, devotion, and defiance while telling painful stories of domestic abuse condoned w ithin Muslim culture. A wave of retributive attacks against mosques, schools, and churches swep t the country following van Gogh's murder.
tossed Molotov cocktails at c hurches in Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Amersfoort. Volksrant listed 10 Musli m and five Christian sites that had been attacked since Friday.
wrote that Th e Hague siege may well turn out to be "one more link in the ugly chain o f events that began" with van Gogh's murder. The prime suspect in van Gogh's murder is a 26-year-old Dutch-Moroccan ma n named Mohammed Bouyeri, named by the local press only at Mohammed B, as is customary in criminal cases. Bouyeri is a second-generation Morocc an immigrant, born in Holland, who reportedly turned to radical Islam on ly two years ago, following the attacks of Sept.
at the center of an Amst erdam-based terror gang with links to the group that carried out the May 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca in which 45 people were killed.
Trouw supports this timeline, saying Bouyeri was a prime target for recruitment by Islamic radicals: "People recruiting fo r Islamic Jihad know exactly who to be on the lookout for in the Netherl ands: second-generation Moroccan youths suffering from an identity crisi s with few prospects and plagued by the thought that the Islamic world i s being suppressed.
Daily Telegraph likened the murder of van Go gh to the Nazi and Communist liquidation of intelligentsia, saying the u nfolding events have laid waste to a Dutch tradition of liberal toleranc e dating back to Spinoza: "If neo-conservatives are liberals who have be en mugged by reality, the Dutch are fast becoming a nation of neo-conser vatives."
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