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"Fascinating . . . Characteristically vivid and astute." --Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books "[Murder in Amsterdam] is a work of philosophical and narrative tension, strikingly sharp and brooding, frank and openly curious." --San Francisco Chronicle "Shrewd, subtly argued." --The New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Ian Buruma is editor of The New York Review of Books. His previous books include Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods.

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Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (August 28, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143112368

ISBN-13: 978-0143112365

Product Dimensions:

5.1 x 0.5 x 7.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

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#411,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Do you wonder what is happening to American social discourse and politics? Why are the likes of a Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders attracting such strong followings? The story of liberal Europe since the 1960s helps to answer such questions, and is perhaps prophetic. Murder in Amsterdam focuses on the problem of multiculturalism in Holland, specifically the clash between liberals (now viewed as conservatives) who value historic notions of freedom, which they believe is threatened by growing Islamic forces, and liberals who envision the peaceful coexistance of Muslims with liberal Europe. Cynics ask, " How tolerant can liberalism be before it self-destructs?"The strength of this book is its' balanced explanation of the influences that have led to this crisis, a clash of worldviews that led to the relatively recent murder of two prominent social critics by disenfranchised, radicalized Muslim youth.The weakness of the book is endemic to Western liberalism itself: a failure to understand the problem of conflictual worldviews. Enlightenment commitment to individual freedom and reason has too often blinded adherents to the reality that worldviews have social consequences, and when the numbers of individuals with mutually exclusive worldviews reach a tipping point, peaceful coexistence becomes impossible. The society will either collapse, or one worldview by force will prevail. "Progressive" liberals cannot see that. Holland (and all of Europe) is struggling with it, and the United States is not far behind.

Fantastic, to start things off. Buruma's writing, always exceptional, is at its top form. While not a long book, it is very much distilled and disciplined writing. For me, the end result was that it seemed much longer. Or, maybe a more accurate word is "bigger," as it is in may ways a big book. The subject he tackles may be the defining theme of this century, which began with a horrible cataclysm in Manhattan five years ago. The idea of preserving European culture continually resurrects the traumas of the Second World War and Nazi philosophy of racial purity. How does modern Europe preserve itself without appearing to regress to racial aversion which has been so systematically eradicated from European politics, philosophy, arts and letters since 1945? Stay tuned for the answer.Buruma courageously confronts the issues swirling around the subject of Islamic values, modern European liberalism/socialism, accommodating anti-democratic values in a democracy. Just yesterday, the Netherlands took steps to outlaw the veil in public places, which will ensure more spilled blood for sure. What I admired was Buruma's refusal to let the Dutch off the hook for the part they have played in creating their mess. The passages about modern Dutch politics were engrossing, as I know less than nothing about the subject. The chapter on Pim Fortuyn was a masterpiece, he seems like the archetypal figure in this unfolding drama.Not that Buruma is suggesting this is a Dutch problem, or that the Dutch are in the wrong. It is a world problem, with no easy answers getting worse daily as our own malevolent leaders insist on dealing with the problem with simplicity and deception, invasion and subjection, distortion and lunacy.

The murders of both Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh are very important to everyone, not just the people of Holland. The fundamental problems of the Netherlands, and all of Europe for that matter, is the intolerance displayed by one religion over all others and the pressures put on the most vulnerable of people to murder those who disagree with them, and do so in the name of religion.This new and dangerous intolerance will eventually visit our shores also and inflame us before our blind leaders even know about it. Therefore, it is up to people like Ian Buruma and others to speak the truth and warn us of what has already happened and why, so that we will not be caught in the same trap of denial that has overwhelmed Europe. The book does that very well, teaching us that we have been asleep too long and have been assuming that "all's right with the world." All is not right with the world and it has become a very dangerous place. But it is the only world we live in and it is time to clean it up. Thanks, Ian, good job.

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