Murder in Amsterdam - Ian Buruma

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Title
Murder in Amsterdam - the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance
Author
Ian Buruma
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20070412

It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete. The murder horrified quiet, complacent Holland - a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance - and sent shock waves around the world. In Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma describes what he found when he returned to his native country to try and make sense of van Gogh's death. The result is Buruma's masterpiece: a brave and rigorous study of conflict in our time, with the intimacy and control of a true-crime page-turner.

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Ian Buruma is currently Luce Professor at Bard College, New York. His previous books include Voltaire's Coconuts, The Missionary and the Libertine,The Wages of Guilt, Inventing Japan, God's Dust and Bad Elements, Occidentalism (Atlantic 2004) and Murder in Amsterdam (Atlantic 2006).

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Murder - Netherlands - Amsterdam.|Murder - Religious aspects - Islam.|Motion picture producers and directors - Netherlands - Death.|Islamic fundamentalism - Europe.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
278

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