Episode 35 • • 10:44 - 13:31
35: The Rise of Islam: Panic or Perspective
Political Islamification and the Assassinations of Fortuyn and Van Gogh
The discussion details the rise of anti-Islamification sentiment in the Netherlands, focusing on the 2002 assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn and the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. Van Gogh was killed by a radicalized Islamist following his collaboration with Ayan Hirsi Ali on a film criticizing the treatment of women in Islam.