[Mb-civic] Europe's Native-Born Enemy - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Europe's Native-Born Enemy

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, July 15, 2005; Page A23

Last Nov. 2 Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker and descendant of the 
painter, was cycling through Amsterdam. He was accosted by Mohammed 
Bouyeri, who shot him six times as van Gogh pleaded, "We can still talk 
about it! Don't do it!" Bouyeri then cut his throat with a kitchen 
knife, practically severing his head. Bouyeri was not done. He then took 
a five-page Islamist manifesto and with his knife impaled it on van 
Gogh's chest.

On trial now in the Netherlands, Bouyeri is unrepentant. In court he 
turned to van Gogh's grieving mother and with infinite cruelty said to 
her, "I do not feel your pain."

<>He feels instead glory. Van Gogh had made a short film about the 
oppression of Muslim women. Bouyeri was acting "purely in the name of my 
religion," championing his faith by butchering a filmmaker critical of it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401697.html?nav=hcmodule 

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