She became a member of parliament, and won a dangerous kind of fame as an ex-Muslim apostate.

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The Islamist radical who murdered van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri, used a knife to pin a letter to his victim's body, explaining his actions and threatening to kill Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an ex-Muslim and friend of the director, who remains a fierce critic of Islam.

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Through his schools, Iran's influence in the ex-communist Muslim republics could be stemmed.

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