Murder in Amsterdam Free Download PDF By Ian Buruma
| Title | : | Murder in Amsterdam |
| Author | : | Ian Buruma |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 288 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1594201080 |
Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist It was the emblematic crime of our moment On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist It was the emblematic crime of our moment On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great grandnephew of Vincent and iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the vocally anti Islam Somali born Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali that blasphemed Islam After Bouyeri shot van Gogh, he calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete, as if performing a ritual sacrifice, which in a very real sense he was The murder horrified quiet, complacent, prosperous Holland, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of tolerance, and sent shock waves across Europe and around the world Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native country to try to make sense of it all and to see what larger meaning should and shouldn t be drawn from this story The result is Buruma s masterpiece a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a true crime page turner and the intellectual resonance we ve come to expect from one of the most well regarded journalists and thinkers of our time Ian Buruma s entire life has led him to this narrative In his hands, it is the exemplary tale of our age, the story of what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West and tolerance finds its limits
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Ian Buruma is a British Dutch writer and academic, much of whose work focuses on the culture of Asia, particularly that of 20th century Japan, where he lived and worked for many years.
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Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker
288 pagesIan Buruma
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