Submission, part II?

After the murder of Theo van Gogh I heard a lot of stories how he'd had it coming, as it was heresy to paint Qu'ran texts all over the naked body of a woman, as he had done in the now infamous movie Submission, part I.
< male chauvinist pig mode>
(I agree, by the way, there are a lot more useful things one can do with the naked body of a woman. Not sure if that's what Mohammed Bouyeri had in mind though.)
< /male chauvinist pig mode>
Anyway, I sure hope the Arabic text on her body (a) is just the literal translation of the English text, and (b) doesn't appear anywhere in the Qur'an.
Besides jest: why was this woman arrested? Running nude is illegal in the Netherlands too, but surely, the officers could have turned a blind eye. Most New Yorkers will probably have seen a nude woman before, and an arrest as a result of this provocation is probably exactly what she was aiming for. I may bitch from time to time about Dutch tolerance, but in this case, methinks the American coppers could have learned a thing or two from their Dutch colleagues, who would have ignored the woman, as you would a spoiled child.
(Yes, spoiled. Otherwise she'd be in Syria, although I can only applaud her good taste by remaining in the USA.)

(Via Rand Simberg.)

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