Murder in Amsterdam
liberal Europe, Islam and the limits of tolerance
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Word Count
69,500 words, Guess
Page Count
278 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemurderinamsterda0000buru
- ISBN-139780143112365
- ISBN-100143112368
- LibraryThing1450739
- Library of Congress Control Number2006043606
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- OCLC Control Number166229195
- OCLC Control Number69021054
- Better World Books9780143112365
- Open LibraryOL22769399M
Classifications
- DDC364.152/40892
- LCCDJ91 .B87 2006
Description
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.
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