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Article: Van Gogh's killing spurs anger at Islam; Dutch back crackdown.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2004
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Byline: Tom Carter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
AMSTERDAM - Two weeks after the brutal slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, many Dutch are saying their normally staid society has been transformed just as the United States was altered by the September 11 attacks.
Polls taken in the hours immediately after Mr. van Gogh was fatally shot and nearly beheaded showed that 80 percent of Netherlands residents think their country has been changed forever.
The change is not immediately evident in the quiet East Amsterdam neighborhood where the killing took place. The police tape and markings have been removed, as have the piles of memorial flowers that covered ...