The murder of Theo van Gogh: Gender, religion, and the struggle over immigrant integration in the Netherlands

Abstract

I find out about the murder of Theo van Gogh by a radical young Muslim man days after it happened. It’s Saturday, November 5th and just as Shabbat ends, my husband asks me “what do you think of that murder in Holland?" I ask him “what murder?" And he tells me the little bit that he knows. I fly up the two flights of stairs to my third floor study, turn on the computer, hit the newspapers, and start reading.