# Thou shall kill **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231 "2004-11-05T18:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/1 "2004-11-05T18:50:01Z")
The artist Chris Ripke decided to protest the murder of Theo van Gogh by painting a mural with the text “Thou shall not kill” on his own wall. A close by Mosque however deemed it offensive, and got the city council classify it as hate-speech and sand blast it away. A local journalist protesting was arrested and thrown in jail. “Thou shall not kill” offensive?! Fuck. [http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl\_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2525.com%2Flog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F11%2Frotterdam\_de\_da\_1.html&lp=nl\_en](http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2525.com%2Flog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F11%2Frotterdam_de_da_1.html&lp=nl_en) [http://www.noord.kw.nl/video/wim/wim.ram](http://www.noord.kw.nl/video/wim/wim.ram) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/2 "2004-11-05T20:26:13Z")
**Rune** I really don’t know if I ought to thank you for this link. This is another example of dumb Political Correctness. I could give you hunderds. My country is being fucked up and there are people who think it’s still the ‘trend’ to condone murder and are afraid to be called racist Even though racism has nothing to do with this whole thing. I’m very weary. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/3 "2004-11-05T20:42:57Z")
That is truly crazy. BTW, I know that English and Dutch are related and many, many people in the Netherlands speak English but I also know that I have never been able to read Dutch as easily as I can that first link. Is a “Dutchlish” creole like that becoming common? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/4 "2004-11-05T20:52:55Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Is a “Dutchlish” creole like that becoming common? That first link is run through babelfish.altavista’s website translator, check the URL. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/5 "2004-11-06T06:48:32Z")
I don’t believe it. Somebody, somewhere, is Full Of Shit. If “Thou shalt not kill” is “hate-speech”, then so is “Praise Allah”. Color me skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/6 "2004-11-06T20:52:12Z")
**Rune** , a group of friends - authors, poets, artists and directors - of Theo van Gogh, has asked the public to chalk “Thou shalt not kill” on the front of their house. My neighbours and I did just that. [I had to buy chalk first. Who on earth uses chalk nowadays.] I’m curious to see how many people _dare_ to contribute such a small thing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/7 "2004-11-07T02:12:20Z")
> [@gum](#): > > **Rune** I really don’t know if I ought to thank you for this link. This is nothing exclusive for The Netherlands, it’s all over Europe. Here is one, from the front page of a Danish newspaper, a prominent Danish Moslem expressing his satisfaction with the murder: > [@](#): > > A shame that he no longer can enjoy his perverted art or rather Alhamdullilah (thank god) and may Allah swt (the exalted) give his “murderer” sabr (patience in hard times) Though he later tried to retract when the comment got out of the closed mailing list it was posted to, saying it was unfortunate outsiders should read it, he still maintains Theo van Gogh deserved what he got. [http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel:aid=232847](http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel:aid=232847) . . . . . Anyway the major has excused the incident. A bit late of course. [http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl\_pagecontent?lp=nl\_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2525.com%2Flog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F11%2Factie\_geslaagd.html](http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.2525.com%2flog%2farchives%2f2004%2f11%2factie_geslaagd.html) > [@gum](#): > > a group of friends - authors, poets, artists and directors - of Theo van Gogh, has asked the public to chalk “Thou shalt not kill” on the front of their house. I’ve heard some people in Copenhagen talking about making something like that. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/8 "2004-11-07T14:56:27Z")
Is anyone else reminded about the old Lenin quote _“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them”_ when it comes to the PC left and Islamic immigration into Europe? ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thou-shall-kill/273231/9 "2004-11-07T19:51:16Z")
heh, **RandomLetters** , if it weren’t so correct, it would be funny. Thank you **Rune**. And on behalf of the people from the Netherlands; Thank you people of Copenhagen. \*btw: www.maroc.nl and www.marokko.nl were full of muslims doing the happy Snoopy dance [so to speak] because Theo van Gogh was slaughtered. It has been removed, but there’s a fair chance you get to read some more calls for beheadings in a minute. It’s quite busy there. ☹ \*