Film-maker who criticised Islam murdered

A DUTCH film-maker who received death threats after making a movie criticising the treatment of women under Islam was murdered in an Amsterdam street yesterday.

A suspect, a 26-year-old man with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, was arrested after a shoot-out.

Theo van Gogh, a distant relative of painter Vincent van Gogh, had been threatened after the August airing of his film, Submission, which he made with a right-wing Dutch politician who had renounced the Islamic faith of her birth.