YOU CAN'T WATCH THIS VIDEO

I've been reading Nick Cohen's excellent You Can't Read This Book, a cutting account of the constraints on freedom of expression in the world – well, mainly the supposedly liberal western democracies – today.

I'm writing about it in Tribune next week, but in the meantime I discovered to my surprise from some elementary Googling that Submission, the short film that Theo van Gogh made with Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2004, is on YouTube. After it was broadcast in the Netherlands, van Gogh was assassinated by an anti-semitic Islamist fascist who was offended by the film, and Hirsi Ali has lived for the past seven years under threat of death from the murderer's comrades.

As a small act of solidarity, here it is (Italian subtitles but English audio): apologies if you've all seen it before, but it was new to me this morning.

Part 1

Part 2