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...answer is yes. Immediately after the Nov. 2 murder of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, 47 - whose recent work included a controversial attack on Muslim violence against women - a Dutch Muslim man with alleged ties to a terrorist gang was arrested for the crime. That touched off a violent anti-Muslim backlash, which has forced some Dutch citizens to question the limits of free speech, others to ask whether the country's age-old reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash...
...throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans and one Spanish-Moroccan - in addition to Mohammed B. The letter knifed into Van Gogh's body was typed and addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of parliament who wrote and narrated Submission, and contained threats against...
Indeed, safeguarding Iraqi civilians is the expressed purpose of America’s continued presence in Iraq. Ever since the U.S. invaded Iraq, one by one the rationales for war have crumbled. There were no weapons of mass destruction, no plausible terrorist ties, no yellowcake, no turkey farms. The liberation of the Iraqi people from tyranny, originally the icing on the cake for the war’s promoters, is now the sole remaining rationale for American involvement in Iraq. And while this rationale remains a worthy and noble cause, if the freedom of Iraqis is to be the guiding...
...broke the mould, demanding an independent voice and control over Palestinian destiny - a course that ultimately set it on a collision course not only with Israel, but also at various points with many of the Arab regimes. It was a combination of guerrilla resistance, hijackings and other high-profile terrorist operations and skillful diplomacy - all undertaken on Arafat's watch although often with layers of plausible deniability between the PLO chairman and specific actions - that introduced the world to the Palestinians in the early 1970s...
...unveiled his disengagement plan late last year, Sharon has successfully sold it to the Israeli public and to the Bush Administration as an alternative to the peace process, allowing him to put off indefinitely negotiations over a final two-state settlement. As Sharon sees it, Arafat is a terrorist, and Israel won't negotiate with him. Israel, the argument continues, should pull out of Gaza and set up a more defensible position in the West Bank while waiting for Arafat to die and be replaced by someone Sharon can trust. Sharon's critics in the Knesset argue that any efforts...