Theo van gogh pim fortuyn biography
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Theo van Gogh
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Pim Fortuyn
Dutch politician (1948–2002)
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (Dutch:[ˈpɪɱfɔrˈtœyn]ⓘ; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.[1]
Fortuyn worked as a professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam before branching into a business career and was an advisor to the Dutch government on social infrastructure. He then became prominent in the Netherlands as a press columnist, writer and media commentator.
Initially a Marxist who was sympathetic to the Communist Party of the Netherlands, and later a member of the Dutch Labour Party in the 1970s, Fortuyn's beliefs began to shift to the right in the 1990s, especially related to the immigration policies of the Netherlands. Fortuyn criticised multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands. He called Islam "a backward culture", and was quoted as saying that if it were legally possible, he would close the borders for Muslim immigrants.[2] Fortuyn also supported tougher measures against crime and opposed state bureaucracy,[3] wanting to reduce the Dutch financial contribution to the European Union
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Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands
Public Culture PimFortuyn,TheovanGogh, andthePoliticsofTolerancein theNetherlands PetervanderVeer In August 2004, a short film was broadcast on Dutch tele- vision that dealt with the theme of violence against women in Islamic societies. The key scene showed four topless women in transparent clothing; their bodies had been covered with calligraphically inscribed verses from the Koran that legitimate the subjection of women. Working from a script written by Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh had created the tenminute movie Submission, a direct translation of the word Islam. Van Gogh had a long-established reputation for being a provocateur that included insulting the Jewish community and more recent references to Muslims as “the secret column of goat-fuckers.” He was fat, purposefully unkempt, antiauthoritarian, satirical, and immoderate in his language — in short, a personification of the Dutch cultural ethos since the 1970s. He had frequently been sued for libel and slander but managed to successfully defend himself under the rubric of freedom of speech. After the movie was released, both van Gogh and Hirsi Ali received death threats. Van Gogh was murde