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Submission: Part I
2004 · Film · short · 12 min
Directed by Theo van Gogh
The film tells the story of four fictional characters played by a single actress wearing a veil, but clad in a see-through chador, her naked body painted with verses from the Koran. The characters are Muslim women who have been abused in various ways. The film contains monologues of these women and dramatically highlights three verses of the Koran that give authority to men over women, by showing them painted on women’s bodies.
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For a broader context, 16 years earlier something very similar happened in the Netherlands:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Theo_van_Gogh
“The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, an Islamic extremist, killed van Gogh. The reason for murdering Gogh was to oppose the controversial film which criticised Islam: “Submission”. Bouyeri shot and stabbed van Gogh, then cut his throat. Finally the killer attached a 5 letter page to van Gogh's chest with a knife.“
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4716909.stm
“Bouyeri had told the court he had acted out of religious conviction. Clutching a copy of the Koran, he said that "the law compels me to chop off the head of anyone who insults Allah and the prophet"”
What was in the letter: it “threatened Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She had written the script for Van Gogh's controversial film Submission, which criticised the treatment of women under Islam.”
(Completely unrelated to that event, the killed artist’s great-great uncle was Vincent van Gogh.)