A year ago today…
About 500 people gathered in the rain on the pavement where Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh was murdered on Nov 2 2004. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, addressed the crowd:
We shouldn’t let ourselves be divided by a small group of people that writes its message in blood. Spurring hate is no solution.
Van Gogh made a film with Ayaan Hirsi Ali called Submission, which showed several near-naked women with verses from the Koran written on their bodies. This proved too much for 26-year-old radical Islamist Mohammed Bouyeri to bear, so he shot and stabbed the director to death.
We’re Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You?
After Blair’s threat to jail any editor who reports the Bomb Al-Jazeera memo, we thought there would be an outcry. Who would stand up for press freedom, or at least the freedom not to be bombed to buggery?
One man has come out fighting. Boris Johnson:…