Thu, Nov 11, 2004 - Page 6 News List

Communal strife wracks Netherlands

RETALIATION The slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh has plunged the country into a cycle of violence between Muslims and Christians

AP , AMSTERDAM

Van Gogh, 47, was a cherub-faced cynic who loved to prickle -- and sometimes outrightly insult -- people he felt were too sensitive.

"I'm deeply religious -- I worship a pig," he once said. "I call him Allah.

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