Theo-cracy

I asked a German friend, who lives near Darmstadt, what he thought of the Theo Van Gogh murder. He said he hadn't heard anything about it until I brought it up, but a Google search revealed a short item in Spiegel.

Good lord, this ought to be a Sept. 11 wake-up call for Europe, especially those countries that, with current trends, will be Muslim-majority within 50 years (e.g. Sweden). The fact that Van Gogh was a consummate gadfly who had pissed off everybody at one time or another is what drives home the point. It wasn't the Jews or Christians he offended who tracked him down and butchered him with knives.

Many of my blog sources, such as Dhimmi Watch, have done a good job covering the story here. And now Winds of Change has a great post on the topic, titled "Clash of Civilizations."

The last moments of Theo Van Gogh at the hands of an Islamofascist killer creates an interesting portrait of our times. The name 'Van Gogh' is synonymous with Western culture, tied to an era that some argue was the greatest period of art in the West, with much Eastern influence. And in 2004, Vincent Van Gogh's great grandnephew, having made a film about how women are mistreated under Islam, is shot repeatedly, then stabbed.

Theo Van Gogh's last piteous pleadings before his Islamic killer might very well be the words of modern Europe grappling with its rising tide of Muslims on the Old Continent: "Don't do it. Don't do it. Have mercy. Have mercy!"

It's hard to read about Van Gogh's fate and not draw a symbolic parallel between his death and the decline of Europe as a whole. The death of Van Gogh at the hands of a jihadist---in Amsterdam, no less---underscores the cultural divide that socialist European nations are nurturing while in their quest to keep Europe safe for Muslims. Van Gogh was a filmmaker and columnist who appears to have epitomized a secular, post-modern liberal view of the world. He spared no religion his derision; he once mocked a prominent Dutch Jew, referred to Jesus as the rotten fish of Nazareth, and called a radical Muslim politician Allah's pimp. All three Abrahamic religions received his wrath, rightly or wrongly. But only one broke out the koummya and sliced his throat.

More on the killing at this English-language blog from the Netherlands.