2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh…