My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
Wilders has been living under 24-hour police protection since a Dutch jihadist murdered filmmaker Theo Van Gogh in 2004.
Theo van Gogh introduced Vincent and Van Rappard, who lived in Brussels, in 1880, and the pair corresponded for four years.
BBC: A new book of Van Gogh's letters is to be published in 2008-9
With a Dutch filmmaker, Theo van Gogh, she made a short film about what she saw as the oppression of women under Islam.
In 2004, Hirsi Ali collaborated with Theo van Gogh on the film "Submission, " which examined the link between Islamic law and the suffering of millions of women under Islam.
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Given that the court provided greater security to Theo van Gogh's killer than to Mr Wilders, you might almost get the impression that the authorities are indifferent as to which of these fates consumes him.
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In the Netherlands, Mohammed Bouyeri, who had confessed in court to killing Theo van Gogh , a controversial film-maker, and said he would be ready to do it again, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Today, Mr Wilders persists, inseparably bound to bodyguards protecting him from the fate of Theo van Gogh, the filmmaker critical of Islam who was shot and stabbed to death in an Amsterdam street by a Dutch-born Muslim.
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But throughout her tenure she was a calming influence on society, particularly in the aftermath of the 2002 assassination of populist politician Pim Fortuyn and the murder two years later of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim extremist.
His task will be the more delicate as opinion in his country, never too keen on Turkish entry, has turned strongly against, largely as a result of the turmoil over Islam that followed the murder of Theo Van Gogh last month.
Those charges were the handiwork of Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven, a radical imam in the Netherlands who, among other things, praised the murder of Theo van Gogh by a radical Muslim in 2004, and has called for the death of Dutch MP Geert Wilders.
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It already holds about 700 Van Gogh letters, mostly to his brother Theo.
BBC: A new book of Van Gogh's letters is to be published in 2008-9
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