description: It was an emblematic 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, Mohammed Bouyeri calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete. The murder horrified quiet, complacent Holland - a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance - and sent shock waves around the world. In Murder in Amsterdam , Ian Buruma describes what he found when he returned to his native country to try and make sense of van Gogh's death. The result is Buruma's a brave and rigorous study of conflict in our time, with the intimacy and control of a true-crime page-turner.
language: English
title: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
titlecomplete: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
characters: Theo van Gogh (1957-2004)
genres: True Crime, History, Politics, Religion, Crime, European History, Islam, Nonfiction, Journalism, School
ratings_count: 1613
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Atlantic Books