Update on the killing of Theo Van Gogh
Charles at
LGF links to a story of arrests being made in the brutal murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh a few days ago. I blogged about it
here.
From Charles:
bq.
Eight radical Islamists have been arrested in the investigation into the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police have arrested eight suspected Islamic radicals as part of the investigation into the brutal slaying of outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The suspects were detained in the 24 hours following Van Gogh’s killing while he bicycled on an Amsterdam street, prosecution spokeswoman Dop Kruimel told The Associated Press.
Six detainees are of Moroccan origin, one is Algerian and the other has dual Spanish-Moroccan nationality, she said.
The suspect in the killing — a 26-year-old suspected Muslim extremist with dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship — was arrested Tuesday after a shootout with police. The unidentified suspect was wounded in the leg.
Kruimel said the suspects, whose identities were not released, were detained and released during an October 2003 investigation into a potential terrorist threat.
Charles then comments:
bq. The Dutch are becoming aware of the growing danger they have allowed to take root in their country:
Suspected Islamist killing tests Dutch tolerance.
Excerpting from the link he points to:
bq. Commentators said the murder showed attempts to integrate immigrants had failed and threatened to make race relations worse in a country where 10 percent of the population is defined as “non-Western” foreigners — many Muslim Moroccans and Turks.
bq. “This event shows what kind of climate we have allowed to develop. What kind of people we have allowed in and just allowed to go their own way. How we have much too long just let things go to seed,” sociologist Herman Vuijsje told the Volkskrant daily. ...
Maybe the tide is turning over there. Wake up please -- NOW!!!
Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2004 1:21 PM