Posted on 07/12/2005 10:58:39 PM PDT by MadIvan
THE self-confessed killer of Theo van Gogh faced his victim’s mother in an Amsterdam courtroom yesterday and told her that he felt no remorse for his crime.
Turning his chair towards Anneke van Gogh as she watched from the public gallery, Mohammed Bouyeri said: “I don’t feel your pain. I don’t have any sympathy for you. I can’t feel for you because I think you’re a non-believer.”
The Islamic radical admitted killing Mr van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker, saying that he had been driven by his religious beliefs and would do the same again.
Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants to the Netherlands, is accused of shooting and stabbing Mr van Gogh to death in broad daylight on a street in Amsterdam last November, before nearly decapitating him and impaling his corpse with a knife, which secured a five-page note declaring a holy war.
Despite insisting on his right to silence when the trial opened on Monday, Bouyeri spoke out publicly for the first time about the murder, which provoked a wave of ethnic and religious violence across the once-tolerant country.
Clutching the Koran and wearing a flowing robe and chequered headscarf, Bouyeri praised Allah and the Prophet Muhammad before admitting the killing. In a chilling insight into his mindset, he told the panel of judges: “I did what I did purely out of my beliefs. I want you to know that I acted out of conviction and not that I took his life because he was Dutch or because I was Moroccan and felt insulted.”
Seven months before his murder Mr van Gogh had produced a film about domestic violence in Islam that had offended many Muslims. Bouyeri insisted: “If I ever get free, I would do it again.”
He was caught by police in a gun battle after he fled the scene of the crime spattered in Mr van Gogh’s blood. A note was found in his pocket saying that he wanted to become a martyr.
Speaking in Dutch with a Moroccan accent, he turned to police in the court and said: “I shot to kill and be killed. You cannot understand.”
Some spectators rose to their feet, visibly stunned by his comments. The confession and lack of remorse highlight the worst fears haunting mainstream Dutch society about the seemingly unbridgeable gap between them and some of the alienated Muslim youths growing up in the country. The well-educated Bouyeri, 27, had been a moderate Muslim who was considered reasonably well integrated before becoming radicalised nearly two years ago.
The prosecutors say that he had become dedicated to conducting a holy war against the enemies of Islam and had murdered Mr van Gogh to spread terror in the Netherlands. They claim that he is part of a network of Islamic extremists with international links called the Hofstad group, many of whose members are awaiting trail on terrorism charges in Rotterdam.
Frits van Straelen, the chief prosecutor, told the court: “The accused preaches a message of hate and violence. He preaches that anyone who thinks differently can be killed.”
The verdict is expected on July 26. Bouyeri faces life imprisonment without parole.
***Do the Dutch have the death penalty***
Only for infants.
Just damn. A guillotine would do nicely for this scum.
I'd like to introduce "Akbar" to my "Kabar".
And the aged and the infirm.
That really tick me off Netherlands dont have death penalty this one dude that really deserve it
If I was his Van Gogh mom I be tick off too no doubt other freeper is right he spent rest of his dying days recruit new members
Torture? It's a waste of time and effort, and even immoral. We are against cruel and unusual punishment as westerners; we have consciences. What needs to happen is mass, coordinated deportation from Europe and north America. Thinking of one or two people, or even in pure terms of "law enforcement" is not going to solve this problem.
Wow, good call.
"The well-educated Bouyeri, 27, had been a moderate Muslim who was considered reasonably well integrated before becoming radicalised nearly two years ago."
Just how did he suddenly 'become radicalised,' I wonder? It must have been that darn Iraq war--ALL BUSH'S FAULT BUMP!
Exactly.
How long before we hear the same bile at the Old Bailey ?
One can only hope that there are some Dutch criminals who are patriotic enough and honorable enough to snuff this guy in the Crossbar Hotel.
His name is Mohammed? Oh, I am so suprised. Wonder how many more Mohammeds it`s going to take before liberals start believing in profiling.
The author implies that it's very difficult to tell moderate from fanatical Muslims.
That's encouraging - I'm still holding out on BBC, though.
"***Do the Dutch have the death penalty***"
"Only for infants."
.... and the infirm elderly who cost too much to keep around.
But this piece of radicalized human refuse will get 3 square Halal meals a day for 50 years on the Dutch taxpayer's dime.
It was on CBS last night. They even highligted the infidel quote that the murderer made to van Gogh's mother.
What a monster.
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I think life at hard labor rendering pig fat in a sausage factory would be a good start.
It's sad that we are far too "civilized" to consider such a thing.
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