a policeman, however Bouyeri caught a bullet of his own and was arrested. This was not part of Bouyeri’s plan, as he had wanted to die as a martyr to his faith, this is known from statements he made later and from the letter pinned to Van Gogh’s chest. The letter, which had been pinned to Van Gogh’s chest, was written in Dutch and some Arabic, it called for a holy war against the unbelievers, and the deaths of a number of people mentioned by name. A CD disk was found in Bouyeri’s apartment with videos of more than twenty killings of the enemies of Allah (Buruma 2006 p4-5).
The reason behind Van Gogh’s death was because of his insults to Islam, it was not the only religions in which Van Gogh insulted he also insulted the Jews and the Christians. Various politicians and public figures that crossed Van Gogh were told to die slowly of terrible diseases. When Van