The Netherlands – Antisemitic Remarks in a Letter Left by a Muslim Murderer

On 2^nd November 2004, the prominent theater director and journalist Theo van Gogh, a descendant of Vincent van Gogh, was brutally murdered in

Amsterdam. The murderer shot him, slashed his throat and stabbed him in the stomach, attaching a letter to the stab wound. In both his films and his writings van Gogh often expressed criticism of radical Islam, the subordinate position of Muslim women and murders committed in the name of Islam. The letter also mentions the name of Member of Parliament of Somali extraction, Ayaan Hisrai Ali, who assisted van Gogh in his attacks on Islam, claiming that she is influenced by the Jews and does their bidding. The connection to the Jews appeared several times in the letter both regarding the support of The Netherlands for

Israel and Jewish figures of importance such, as the Mayor of Amsterdam.