Ambivalent in Amsterdam

In: The national interest, Heft 86, S. 80-83

Abstract

Ambivalent in Amsterdam Paul Hollander Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), 288 pp., $24.95. THERE HAVE been three major J. ideological-political movements in the 20th and early 21st centuries which most explicitly and purposefully exploited and harnessed the capacity for hatred to the pursuit of political objectives: Nazism, Communism and now radical Islam.