Expatica
May 3, 2005
Open letter warns of blood and revenge
AMSTERDAM -- Mohammed B., the man arrested for the murder of Theo Van
Gogh, wrote an "open letter to the Dutch people" before the attack
warning they will "pay in blood for the slaughter of millions of
Muslims".
Public prosecutor Koos Plooy stressed in Rotterdam Court on Tuesday
that the letter was no joke or an idle boast.
Mohammed B. starts his letter full of praise for Allah and writes that
Allah has instructed Muslims to "kill them", referring to "the
non-believing people of the Netherlands".
Mohammed praised the 11 September terrorist attacks in the US and
cursed the co-operation between the US and the Netherlands in "the
fight for world dominion between belief and unbelief".
He warned that life will "turn to hell" and will only return to peace
when the Dutch government "abandons the murder and rape of Muslims".
Prosecutor Plooy said the letter was discovered when Mohammed B. became
the first member of the Hofstad group to put his Muslim ideology into
action. Mohammed's target was Theo van Gogh, a filmmaker critical of
Islam.
Van Gogh, a distant relative of the famous painter, was shot and
stabbed to death while cycling on an Amsterdam street. A note pinned to
his chest with a knife threatened Islamic holy war, or Jihad, against
non-Muslims.
Van Gogh had directed a film titled "Submission," which was critical of
the treatment of women under Islam.
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