Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know exactly why people downvoted you (I didn't), but guess it's because you attacked factual statements with emotional statements.
My tone was a bit overly confrontational I think, for which I apologize. But I do think the analogy holds. Theo van Gogh was indeed killed for his anti-Islam statements, but by a disturbed individual who had hoped to solve the situation that way. It only made it worse, of course. The murder of Pim Fortuyn follows more or less the same pattern. Killed by a disturbed individual that figured that was the only way to sto…
If in a certain country vocal criticism of a certain ideology is frequently met with punishment, this fact seems informative to me regardless of whether the punishment was democratically sanctioned by the majority.