Twenty Years of “Submission”
About twenty years ago, on November 2nd 2004, Theo van Gogh, the iconoclastic Dutch film director, was murdered in Amsterdam. An Islamist, Mohammed Bouyeri, shot and stabbed Van Gogh before pinning a note to his chest that contained a death threat towards the filmmaker’s collaborator, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Their crime? Making a film, Submission, about Islami…