frustration. His first disappointment was in 1994 when the youth club he often visited was to be closed and to make way for new apartment building. Then another set back in November 1997 when he got into a brawl with a number of policemen in Amsterdam. When he applied for a security job he was turned down because of his negative police report. He met his first and possibly only girlfriend, but this did not last long, attracting women was never easy for Mohammed. This rejection made him violent; he would blame it on racism. This ultimately led to Bouyeri murdering Van Gogh (Buruma 2007 p197-200).
“While many women embrace Western life, men, faced with rejection and frustration, turn away to a fantasy of tribal honour and religious rectitude. A teenage desire for easy women makes way for disgust and rage” (Buruma 2007 p201).
Mohammed was trying to shut out