Posted on 07/12/2005 10:58:39 PM PDT by MadIvan
THE self-confessed killer of Theo van Gogh faced his victims 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 dont feel your pain. I dont have any sympathy for you. I cant feel for you because I think youre 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 Goghs 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.
A "moderate Muslim" is like saying a "Moderate Nazi".
It's very bridgeable, so long as all Euros become dhimmi to the Muslims, and pay the zakat tax.
"Do the Dutch have the death penalty,....."
The death penalty? The dutch? Bwaaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!
This creep will go to prison and be the head recruiter for al-qeada .
Are the just shocked or do they finally understand what we are all facing in this WOT
I'd give him life imprisonment without FOOD!
Are you kidding? No country in the whole Eurabia including Russia has death penalty anymore.
Yes, I know, but was just checking to see if that had been changed.
Some advice to The Kingdom of the Netherlands: Arrange to have this scum snuffed in prison. He's a slug and of no intelligence value whatsoever. You already know where the other slugs are. Rid yourselves of this human garbage, and then round up and deport his ideological brethren en masse. Save yourselves and your culture while you can.
no, in holland there was always a feeling against muslims.
nobody had the guts to come forward and say it in public.
pim fortuyn said it, and paid for it with his life, immigration rules are very strict ever since. some are proposing in private to deport every muslim back to were they came from. one or two more jihad murders in holland, and then there will come massive riots.
the question is not will it occur, but when will it occur?
i agree, however most of my countryman do not, give them time, as i said earlier, one or two terrorist attacks and the majority will think this way. they will come, but when?
I wasn't thinking of deporting him; he's already incurred his criminal punishment. I had deportation in mind for Holland's Muslim population at large.
I think this is society's fault
Draw and quarter!
It is. They opened the floodgates of immigration. And they did it for the cheap labor (I'm not being sarcastic). What ye sew, so shall ye reap.
Hot dog head needs to be roasted ever so slowly.
Just damn ping.
I'm sure most of the Euro libs are wringing their hands in a state of utmost perplexity: "why we've explained to this nice but misguided young man how wonderful todays liberalism is, and he still wants to kill us" they whine to themselves. Utterly clueless about the threat that hangs over their heads.
Film at 11
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