According to witnesses, [Dutch filmaker Theo] van Gogh had said to his murderer (who at the time was living on welfare payments from the Dutch government) : "Don't do it! Don't do it! Mercy! Mercy!" And: "Surely we can talk about this." The blunt, outspoken van Gogh had been an unsparing critic of European passivity in the face of fundamentalist Islam; unlike most Europeans, he'd understood the connection between the war on terror and the European integration crisis, and had called America "the last beacon of hope in a steadily darkening world." Together he and Hirsi Ali had made a short film, Submission - he'd directed, she'd written the script - about the mistreatment of women in Islamic cultures. Yet at the end, it seemed, even he grasped at the Western European elite's most unshakable article of faith - the belief in peace and reconciliation through dialogue.
- Bruce Bawer, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
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