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mauzip:
Women in Islam film man 'murdered'
Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Posted: 6:08 AM EST (1108 GMT)

 
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- A controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, has been murdered in Amsterdam, police said.

Amsterdam police said Van Gogh had been stabbed and shot in the centre of the city Tuesday.

Van Gogh's short feature film "Submission" angered some Dutch Muslims for its portrayal of a Muslim woman who is abused by her husband.

Police said they arrested a man at the scene after an exchange of gunfire in which the suspect wounded a police officer. The suspect was wounded in his leg.

Some Dutch media said Van Gogh had been planning to make a film about anti-immigration populist Pim Fortuyn, who was gunned down by an animal rights activist in May 2002, days before his grass-roots party stormed to second place in a general election.

Van Gogh received death threats after "Submission" was broadcast earlier this year. He made the film with Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who won Dutch citizenship after fleeing an arranged marriage 12 years ago.

She has been under police protection after receiving death threats.

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this is a sad day in Dutch history :( >:(

RIP

Don Seer:

its nothing to do with holland.. its to do with backwards ass, oppresive... violent ass religious bigots ;)

mauzip:
the murderer was probably a muslim... i wish they shot the man through his head instead in his leg

Don Seer:

and let him not suffer? think about it... justice is more valuable than revenge.

*Jamal*:
Things like this always go both ways....

(CNSNews.com) - A Long Island, New York man, who allegedly murdered his business partner after an argument over money, says stress from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks made him do it.

Nathan Powell flew into a rage on Oct. 3, according to his lawyer, after first witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center and later hearing his partner, Jawed Wassel, express sympathy for the Taliban.

Prosecutors have a different story. They say Powell became enraged after Wassel scaled back Powell's share of profits from a movie. They say Powell beat Wassel with a pool cue stick, stabbed him to death and then used a hacksaw to dismember the body. Police arrested Powell after they found body parts in a cardboard box in his rented van.

Defense attorney Thomas Liotti, who will mount the post-traumatic stress disorder defense on behalf of Powell, calls his client "a patriot."

A Nassau County grand jury recently indicted Powell, charging him with two counts of second-degree murder, including one count of intentional murder and one of depraved indifference. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

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