5. “Galloway Told to Avoid His Home,” BBC News, April 20, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4467147.stm.
6. James Brandon and Salam Hafez, Crimes of the Community: Honour-Based Violence in the UK (London: Centre for Social Cohesion, 2008), http://www.londonscb.gov.uk/files/resources/cpp/crimes_of_the_community.pdf.
7. “Theo van Gogh Believed Provocation Was the Ultimate Freedom of Expression,” Agence France Presse (AFP), July 11, 2005; Marlise Simons, “Dutch Filmmaker, an Islam Critic, Is Killed,” New York Times, November 3, 2004, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E7D61F3DF930A35752C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all; Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (London: Penguin, 2006), 87–99.
8. Paul Gallagher and Marcel Michelson, “Dutch Filmmaker, Who Angered Muslims, Shot Dead,” Reuters, November 2, 2004, http://www.rense.com/general59/shot.htm.
9. Anthony Deutsch, “Dutch politician threatened in letter left on body of murdered film-maker,” AP, November 5, 2004, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271036/posts; Ronald Rovers, “The Silencing of Theo van Gogh,” Salon, November 24, 2004, http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/24/vangogh/index.html.
10. Toby Sterling, “Alleged Killer of Filmmaker Van Gogh Dreamed of Overthrowing Dutch Government, Prosecutors Say,” AP, January 26, 2005, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-104744913.html; David Rennie, “Contempt and defiance from Muslim accused of murdering film-maker,” Daily Telegraph, July 12, 2005.
11. Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam, 210–12.
12. Ibid., 189; Glenn Frankel, “From Civic Activist to Alleged Terrorist,” Washington Post, November 28, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16855-2004Nov27.html; Anthony Browne, “Muslim Radical Confesses to Van Gogh Killing in Court tirade,” The Times, July 12, 2005, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article543212.ece; “Van Gogh Suspect Refuses Defense,” BBC News, July 11, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670535.stm; Rennie, “Contempt and Defiance”; Philippe Naughton, “Van Gogh Killer Jailed for Life,” The Times, July 26, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4716909.stm. In March 2006, nine members of the Hofstad group were convicted of membership in a terrorist organization; some received prison sentences of up to fifteen years and others were deported. See “Up to 15 Years in Prison for Nine Members of Dutch ‘Terrorist’ Network,” AFP, March 10, 2006.
13. Anthony Browne, “Film-maker Is Murdered for His Art,” The Times, November 3, 2004, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article502323.ece; Toby Sterling, “Filmmaker Who Criticized Islam Slain,” AP, November 2, 2005, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-11145726.html; “Some 20,000 Dutch Gather to Pay Homage to Slain Controversial Filmmaker,” AFP, November 2, 2004, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2004/11/03/1233542.htm.
14. Glenn Frankel, “Controversial Dutch Filmmaker Is Slain,” Washington Post, November 3, 2004, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-212183.html; “Many Fear Dutch Society Has Lost Its Famed Tolerance after Filmmaker’s Murder,” AFP, November 3, 2004.
15. Jan M. Olsen, “In Denmark, Leading Muslim Cleric Says Slain Dutch Filmmaker’s Critique of Islam Unacceptable,” AP, November 19, 2004; Carin Pettersson, “Norwegian Imam Supports van Gogh Murder,” Nettavisen, November 19, 2004, http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article304803.ece; “Norwegian Politicians March Against Muslim Violence,” AFP, December 4, 2004.
16. Marlise Simons, “Militant Muslims Act to Suppress Dutch Film and Art Show,” New York Times, January 31, 2005, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D9153BF932A05752C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
17. Michael McDonough, “Hundreds of Protestors Damage Theater in Protest over Sikh Play,” AP, December 19, 2004; Tania Branigan and Vikram Dodd, “Writer in Hiding As Violence Closes Sikh Play,” The Guardian, December 21, 2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/dec/21/religion.arts; Nick Cohen, “Yet Again We Cave into Religious Bigots. And This Time They’re Hindus,” The Observer, May 28, 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/may/28/arts.comment; Dan Sabbagh, “‘Springer’ Row a Threat to Free Speech—BBC Chief,” The Times, March 8, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4606085.stm; “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” The Economist, January 15, 2005, http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10015239.
18. Richard Owen, “Muslims Say Fresco Must Be Destroyed,” The Times, June 29, 2001, http://www.hvk.org/articles/0603/86.html.
19. Frank Bruni, “Italy Arrests 5; Fresco Showing Muhammad Is Issue,” New York Times, August 21, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/21/international/europe/21ITAL.html; Reuters, “Italy Frees Fresco Suspects,” New York Times, August 22, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/world/italy-frees-fresco-suspects.html?pagewanted=1; Sabina Castelfranco, “Italy Thwarts Terrorist Attack Days Before Election,” Voice of America News, April 7, 2006, http://sweetness-light.com/archive/italy-foils-two-terrorist-attacks.
20. John Latham, “At War with the Tate,” Independent, October 12, 2005, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-latham-at-war-with-the-tate-510620.html; Stephen Deuchar, “This Is Not Censorship, It’s Safety,” The Guardian, October 11, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/11/art.terrorism.
21. Andrew Higgins, “Muslims Ask French to Cancel 1741 Play by Voltaire,” AP, March 6, 2006, http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/03/muslims_ask_fre.php.
22. Craig Whitlock, “Fear of Muslim Backlash Cancels Opera,” Washington Post, September 27, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601352.html; David R. Sands, “Opera Canceled for Fear of Muslim Ire,” Washington Times, September 27, 2006; Madeline Chambers, “Merkel Warns Against Bowing to Fear of Muslim Violence,” Reuters, September 27, 2006, http://www.islamfortoday.com/germany01.htm; Craig Whitlock, “In German Opera, Heads Come Off Without Incident,” Washington Post, December 18, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801255.html; Mark Landler, “At German Conference on Muslim Relations, One Vote is Unanimous: Mozart Must Go On,” New York Times, September 28, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/europe/28germany.html.
23. Geir Moulson, “Berlin Gallery Closes Danish Group’s Exhibition after Threats over Poster,” AP, February 29, 2008, http://www.Reuters.com/article/idUSL2860324220080228.
24. Kate Connolly, “Security Stepped Up As German Theater Breaks Taboo by Staging Satanic Verses,” The Guardian, March 29, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/mar/29/theatre.germany; “German Theater Stages Version of Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses,’” AP, March 31, 2008.
25. Isabel Vincent, “ ‘Jihad’ Jitters at Met,” New York Post, January 10, 2010, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/jihad_jitters_at_met_76yj3VNUy4hcRAnhOcPCHP.
26. The Jewel of Medina statement by Random House Publishing Group, http://www.random-house.com/rhpg/medinaletter.html; Patricia Cohen, “Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book,” New York Times, August 12, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html; statement by Yale University Press, August 14, 2009, http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/KlausenStatement.asp.
27. For the interview with Klausen, see http://www.thefire.org/article/11418.html; Wendy Kaminer, “Index on Censorship Meets the Enemy Within,” The Atlantic, December 21, 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2009/12/index-on-censorship-meets-the-enemy-within/32439/.
28. Sarah Marsh, “German Publisher Cancels Book Seen Insulting Islam,” Reuters, October 6, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5952Y120091006.
29. Aaron Eitan Meyer, “Frankfurt Cancels ‘Muhammad Look-alike Contest’ Out of Fear of Offending Muslims,” Legal Project Blog, October 30, 2008, http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2008/10/frankfurt-cancels-muhammad-look-alike.
30. “Fatwa for ‘Gay Jesus’ Writer,” BBC News, October 29, 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/493436.stm. This quotation is of t
he BBC’s paraphrase rather than of Sheik Muhammad’s exact words.
31. “Muslim Gang Forces Paris Café to Censor Cartoon Show,” AFP, March 31, 2006.
32. Ben Sisario, “London Gallery Removes Works,” New York Times, October 7, 2006, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E6D91230F934A35753C1A9609C8B63.
33. Giulio Meotti, “In the Casbah of Rotterdam,” originally in il Foglio, May 14, 2009, trans. Matthew Sherry, http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1338480?eng=y.
34. “Men Plotted Against UK Publisher of Mohammad Book,” Reuters, April 21, 2009, http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE53K2SO20090421; Asra Q. Nomani, “You Still Can’t Write About Muhammad,” Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121797979078815073.html.
35. “ ‘Draw Mohammad’ Cartoonist Goes into Hiding at FBI’s Insistence after Assassination Threat,” Fox News, September 16, 2010.
36. Andrew Alexander, “Where Was the ‘Where’s Muhammad?’ Cartoon?” Washington Post, October 10, 2010.
37. Tara Bahrampour, “Out of Suburbia, the Online Extremist,” Washington Post, November 2, 2010; Nina Mandell, “Zachary Chesser, Man Who Threatened South Park Creators, Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison,” New York Daily News, February 25, 2011.
38. Marlise Simons, “Militant Muslims Act to Suppress Dutch Film and Art Show,” New York Times, January 31, 2005, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E6D9153BF932A05752C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.
39. Jana Winter, “Iranian Artist Fights to Have Muhammad Art Displayed in Dutch Museums,” Fox News, May 3, 2008, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354075,00.html; Matthew Campbell, “Woman Artist Gets Death Threats over Gay Muslim Photos,” The Sunday Times, January 6, 2008, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3137510.ece. For a similar case, see also “Swedish Museum Removes Painting after Complaints about Use of Muslim Verses,” AP, February 3, 2005, http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18596867_ITM.
40. Ben Hoyle, “Artists Too Frightened to Tackle Radical Islam,” The Times, November 19, 2007, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2896431.ece; Tim Walker, “Hytner ‘Is Afraid of Offending Muslims,’ ” Daily Telegraph, July 30, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/2472422/Hytneris-afraid-of-offending-Muslims.html; Ben Child, “Emmerich Reveals Fear of Fatwa Axed 2012 Scene,” The Guardian, November 3, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/03/roland-emmerich-2012-kaaba.
41. Stephanie Van Den Berg, “Dutch Far-right Leader Fortuyn Shot Dead,” AFP, May 6, 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1971423.stm; Abrose Evans-Pritchard and Joan Clements, “Fortuyn Killed ‘to Protect Muslims,” Daily Telegraph (U.K.), March 28, 2003, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1425944/Fortuyn-killed-to-protect-Muslims.html.
42. Marlise Simons, “Behind the Veil: A Muslim Woman Speaks Out,” New York Times, November 9, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/world/the-saturday-profile-behind-the-veil-a-muslim-woman-speaks-out.html?pagewanted=1; “I Won’t Be Intimidated for Expressing My Views,” Expatica, September 27, 2004, http://www.expatica.com/nl/main.htm; Christopher Caldwell, “Daughter of the Enlightenment,” New York Times, March 3, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03ALI.html; “Moving Stories: Ayaan Hirsi Ali,” BBC News, December 23, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3322399.stm; “Danger Women,” The Guardian (U.K.), May 17, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/may/17/religion.immigration; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (New York: Free Press, 2008), 285–86.
43. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Grief and Anger over Theo’s Murder,” International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2004, http://www.flameout.org/flameout/vangogh/griefandanger.html; Ronald Rovers, “The Silencing of Theo van Gogh,” Salon, November 24, 2004; “Another Political Mrrder,” The Economist, November 6, 2004, http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/24/vangogh/index.html.
44. “Threatened Dutch MP out of Hiding,” BBC News, January 18, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4183697.stm.
45. “Dutch Court Sentences Rappers over Threat lyrics,” Reuters, January 27, 2005; Marlise Simons, “Two Dutch Deputies on the Run, from Jihad Death Threats,” New York Times, March 4, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/international/europe/04hague.html; “Threatened MP Wilders Gains Permanent Secured Housing,” Expatica, April 1, 2005, https://www.osac.gov/News/story.cfm?contentID=26632&print&print.
46. Deborah Scroggings, “The Dutch-Muslim Culture War,” The Nation, June 9, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050627/scroggins; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “The Right to Offend,” NRC Handelsblad, February 14, 2006, http://www.nrc.nl/opinie/article1654061.ece/The_Right_to_Offend; Marlise Simons, “Immigration Debate Divides the Dutch,” International Herald Tribune, May 24, 2006.
47. “PM Has ‘No Use’ for Hirsi Ali’s Cartoon Views,” Expatica, February 10, 2006, http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/pm-has-no-use-for-hirsi-alis-cartoon-views-27556.html.
48. John Ward Anderson, “Discredited Somali Quits Dutch Politics,” Washington Post, May 17, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601872.html; “Dutch Disease,” Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2006; “Muslim’s Loss of Dutch Citizenship Stirs Storm,” New York Times, May 18, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/world/europe/18dutch.html?sq=&st=nyt&scp=301&pagewanted=print; “Intolerant Netherlands,” Washington Post, May 18, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/17/AR2006051701903.html.
49. “Dutch Forced to Rethink Decision on Somali-born MP,” The Guardian (U.K.), May 18, 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/18/mainsection.international1. Also see Hirsi Ali’s resignation speech, in “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘I Will Continue to Ask Uncomfortable Questions,’” Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2006), http://www.meforum.org/1029/ayaan-hirsiali-i-will-continue-to-ask; Marlise Simons, “Somali-Born Politician Allowed to Stay a Dutch Citizen,” New York Times, June 27, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/europe/28dutch.html?sq=Balkenende&st=nyt&scp=53&pagewanted=all.
50. “Hirsi Ali Says Thanks but No Thanks,” Copenhagen Post, October 17, 2007, http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/17/1031928-hirsi-ali-says-thanks-but-no-thanks-by-the-copenhagen-post-october-17-2007-1000.
51. “Former Dutch Lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Seek Protection in France,” Deutsche PresseAgentur, February 10, 2008, http://www.france24.com/en/20080210-ayaan-hirsi-ali-seeks-islaam-dutch-MP-former-french-protection-france; Vanessa Mock, “EU Politicians Make Empty Promises to Hirsi Ali,” Expatica, February 15, 2008, http://www.expatica.com/nl/lifestyle_leisure/news_focus/EU-politicians-make-empty-promises-to-Hirsi-Al.html?ppager=0.
52. “Man Gets Community Service for Death Threats to Dutch MP,” AFP, December 3, 2004; Gareth Harding, “Interview: Geert Wilders—the New Fortuyn?” United Press International, December 1, 2004; “Dutch Prosecutor Demands Jail Sentence for Death Threat Against Lawmaker,” AFP, November 19, 2004; “Dutch Shocked by Public Death Wish from Muslim,” Reuters, November 24, 2004.
53. Daniel Schwammenthal, “An Ordinary Dutch Life,” Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2006.
54. Marlise Simons, “2 Dutch Deputies on the Run from Jihad Death Threats,” New York Times, March 4, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/international/europe/04hague.html; Christopher Caldwell, “Holland Daze,” Weekly Standard, December 27, 2004, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/059darxx.asp.
55. Keith B. Richburg, “In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes with a Price,” Washington Post, February 1, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52502-2005Jan31.html; “Threatened MP Wilders Gains Permanent Secured Housing.”
56. “Populist Politician Blasts Koran, Mohammed,” Daily Telegraph, February 14, 2007; Ian Traynor, “ ‘I Don’t Hate Muslims. I Hate Islam,’ says Holland’s Rising Political Star,” The Guardian (U.K.), February 17, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/17/netherlands.isla
m.
57. Nicolien den Boer, “‘Qur’an Should Be Banned’—Wilders Strikes Again,” Radio Netherlands, August 8, 2007, http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/ned070808mc-redirected; Michel Hoebink, “Hirsi Ali’s Ally Attacked by Fellow Islam Critics,” Radio Netherlands, May 4, 2007 http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/ned070405-redirected; “Dutch Far Right MP Snubs EU, Refuses Seat,” Washington Post, June 11, 2009, http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/dutch-far-right-mp-snubs-eu-seat-after-win-2781029, Aaron Gray-Block, “Dutch Anti-Islam Politician Wilders Plans New Film,” Reuters, April 16, 2009, http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1571.
58. Anthony Deutsch, “Popular Dutch Lawmaker Urges Halt to Non-Western Immigrants, Shutting Down Radical Mosques,” AP, November 19, 2004; Schwammenthal, “An Ordinary Dutch Life”; Harding, “Interview: Geert Wilders—the New Fortuyn?”
59. Anthony Browne, “Death Threats Force Controversial Dutch MP Underground,” The Times (U.K.), November 20, 2004, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article393161.ece.
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