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💪I see Strength, submission.
P.S. correct me - if I am wrong.
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Theo van Gogh was murdered for trying to raise awareness of women being persecuted in the Middle East.View quoted post on X
In 2004, Theo van Gogh made a film about the abuse of women under Islam.
The film was called: Submission. The film showed abused women with Quran verses written on their bodies.
The film was written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch MP and ex-Muslim.
On November 2, 2004, Mohammed Bouyeri, a 26-year-old Dutch-born son of Moroccan immigrants, shot van Gogh as he cycled to work in Amsterdam.
Van Gogh asked, "Can't we talk about this?"
Bouyeri cut his throat, then used a knife to pin a five-page letter to his body. The letter threatened Hirsi Ali, and it called for war against the West and against Jews.
Bouyeri wasn't a lone madman. He belonged to the Hofstad network, a group of young Dutch Islamists that police were already watching. He grew up in the Netherlands and went to Dutch schools, and he was radicalized at home. At his trial, he told the court he acted out of religious conviction and would do it again. He was sentenced to life without parole.
The aftermath split the country. Mosques and churches were set on fire. Hirsi Ali went into hiding, lost her Dutch home after neighbors complained about the security risk, and later moved to the US. Geert Wilders has lived under police protection.
Note: Theo van Gogh was a great-grandson of Vincent van Gogh’s brother.