Conspiracism - Islamic redemptive antisemitism and the murder of Theo van Gogh

Investigates Islamic redemptive antisemitism and the murder of Theo van Gogh. Dutch journalist and filmmaker Theo van Gogh was assassinated in 2004 by Mohammed Bouyeri, a member of a jihadist group, for making a film about violence against women in Islam. Prior to the murder, Bouyeri penned the ‘Open Letter to Hirshi Ali’, amongst a number of other texts demonstrating ‘Muslim antisemitism’ and his belief in Jewish conspiracy. Bouyeri’s thinking was connected to a broadly felt sense of dissatisfaction among young Muslims around the turn of the century, and to notions regarding the assumed central role of Jews in Dutch and global society.