"It was an unnerving way to start the day. Only 24 hours earlier Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker. "

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Link from http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/
" 'how a multicultural society should deal with freedom of expression'. This implicitly suggests that Mr. Van Gogh may just have stepped over some sort of invisible line, and therefore may be partly to blame for his own death. Of course, this suggestion was never spoken out aloud."

It seems like a small price. From a country that doesn't believe in the death penalty- it's merely outsource it to the private sector.
Sure, shooting someone and sawing off his head in front of the public too busy to pay much attention, seems a bit harsh for crime of making a film. But what can a goverment do?