I went back and read over the last sections of Murder in Amsterdam, and what I found the most intriguing was the discussion of Mohammed's life and motivation to kill Van Gogh. Mohammed claims that he kills out of faith, not for personal reasons, yet when old friends talked about him, they stated that he never really went to mosque, he was a leftist and he watched Belgian TV instead of from Al Jazeera and Moroccan TV. He claimed that he didn't kill Van Gogh because he was Dutch, and that he was not at all motivated by race, yet Buruma presents accounts of Mohommad becoming angry and violent as a result of what he claimed were "racist" acts. Many of these were simply acts in which traditional Islamic customs such as building a desirable kitchen where women could go in and out unseen were not honored by the Dutch, and this angered Mohommad for some reason even though he wasn't actively practicing. I just found the contradiction between how Mohammed explained his actions and his everyday behavior interesting.