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Kola Boof says:  "I barely knew Theo Van Gogh  while he was alive.  To me, he was just one of many journalists in Europe who contacted me in 2002 after Sudanese officials threatened my life and issued an illegal fatwa.  He contacted me a second time, in 2003, when my publisher in Morocco was firebombed.  At this time I was living in hiding and he said that he wanted to get some film footage of Ayan Hirsi and me.  It never came to anything, but he was a very kind, generous man.  He told me to ignore the cruel treatment that I was receiving by the U.S. media and he wanted to know if my sons were alright and if I needed any money to feed my children while I was in hiding.  He thought it was terrible that people could be killed or beaten just because they didn't agree with Islam.  I thought he was a very smart man, and after they murdered him...I cried for days, because it made me realize just how much trouble people like him and I have gotten ourselves into and that at any moment, we can end up silenced by these terrorists and this fanaticism that grips the Islamic religion.  I wrote "I Still Hear the Lion" as an affirmation of the tremendous risk Theo took in simply telling the truth and standing up for what is right.  He was a hero, a lion."

Kola Boof's poem "I Still Hear the Lion" will be included in her upcoming poetry collection "My Dearest...and My Dearest of All" (2006).

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