Amsterdam
An Islamic school in Amsterdam was bombed this week and several mosques vandalized, in a wave of anti-Muslim violence sparked by the killing of Theo van Gogh. The filmmaker, whose recent movie about an abused Muslim woman angered the Dutch Muslim community, was shot to death by suspected Islamic radicals last week; a note vowing further murders was found pinned to his body with a knife. Since then, both Muslim and anti-Muslim rhetoric has heated up. Moroccan Web sites have begun calling for jihad in the Netherlands, while several Dutch politicians said they would start a new anti-immigration party. About 5 percent of Dutch residents are Muslim, mostly Moroccan immigrants.
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