TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buruma,Ian
TI  - Murder in Amsterdam: liberal Europe, Islam and the limits of tolerance 
SN  - 0143112368 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Gogh, Theo van,
KW  - Toleration
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Europe
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-268) and index
N2  - 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. The murder horrified quiet, complacent, prosperous Holland, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance, and sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Ian Buruma returned to his native Netherlands to try to make sense of it all and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn't be drawn from this story. The result is a true-crime page-turner with the intellectual resonance we've come to expect from this well-regarded journalist and thinker: the exemplary tale of our age, the story of what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West and tolerance finds its limits.--From publisher description
ER  -