- Toleration, Ethnic relations, History, Assassination
On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, the son of Moroccan immigrants, killed celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of Vincent and iconic European provocateur, for making a movie that "blasphemed" Islam.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ian Buruma
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin Press HC, The, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143112365
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