AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- 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.
Police said they arrested a man at the scene after a shootout. The suspect, a 26-year-old man with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, and a police officer were slightly wounded.
Filmmaker Theo van Gogh had been threatened after the August airing of the movie ''Submission,'' which he made with a right-wing Dutch politician who had renounced the Islamic faith of her birth.
Van Gogh, 47 -- who said he was the great grandson of the brother of famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, who was also named Theo -- had received police protection after the film's release.
The killing immediately rekindled memories of the 2002 assassination of Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn who was shot to death days before national elections.
Van Gogh had been making a film about Fortuyn, which was due for release in December.
In a recent radio interview, Van Gogh dismissed the threats and called ''Submission'' ''the best protection I could have. It's not something I worry about.''
Police told The Associated Press that Van Gogh's killer shot and stabbed his victim and left a note on his body. They declined to comment on reports that the filmmaker's neck was slashed.
Reaction By Muslims to a Movie %26 killing of Filmmaker..November 2004.?norten
wait a minute is the guy above me advocating the murder of the film maker?
thats sick and twisted
Reaction By Muslims to a Movie %26 killing of Filmmaker..November 2004.?panda
muslims kill people.
what do you expect them to do? mount a reasoned argument?
So?
If someone have logical argument on Islam it can be answered logically. But if someone just bash in the form of film, what else could have been done.
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