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.
These "muslums" put bombs on their babies, do you think the threat of death affects them?
Savages. Like rabid dogs.
Mohammedanism isn't Christianity.
In matters political Islam is a system of despotism at home and aggression abroad. The Prophet commanded absolute submission to the imâm. In no case was the sword to be raised against him. The rights of non-Moslem subjects are of the vaguest and most limited kind, and a religious war is a sacred duty whenever there is a chance of success against the "Infidel". Medieval and modern Mohammedan, especially Turkish, persecutions of both Jews and Christians are perhaps the best illustration of this fanatical religious and political spirit.Mohammed and Mohammedanism
1911 Catholic Encyclopedia
What's changed since 1911? Or 700?
Words flow easily from the criminal mind as blood flows from their victims.
And the elderly. And the sick...
Mrs. van Gogh had better put some ice on it.
The Western world will wake up one day, probably thousands of needless deaths from now and realize that we're at war.
mark. Good to see ya Ivan.
BTTT
Well, I certainly hope his jailers have treated his copy of the Koran respectfully.
"...Flog him to death..."
Exactly. And while it's being done, tell him "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.". Use his words against him. Quid pro quo.
I'm afraid you're right. This guy is advocating a conspiracy against western civilization that would endorse mass murder.
Becuse he's a chickenshit coward like the rest of his kind.
bookmarked
Silly Western law maker. Your political speech from the bench is useless. Our laws against hate and intolerance were made to defend us against Christian totalitarians who were at least bound by their people to have some conscious.
Waiting for Muslims to condemn this animal and rise up against killing innocent people is futile. As a whole they are at war against our civilization. You have only captured one foot soldier.
Yeah? And what did they come up with?
CA....
I just want him off the planet (doesn't the space shuttle have a luggage rack on top?)
We need to get this to that guitarist for Queen so he can better understand why they hate us so much.
These characters are sub-human, and our leaders better start getting that, or we are all sunk.
It was based around the woman who made the film with Van Gogh; she is now involved with the rights of Muslim women in the Holland legislature (not sure what they call it there). And, needless to say, she is now a target.
It was quite scary and quite sad at the same time; the people in Holland are beginning to wake up - and they are not too thrilled with what they are seeing around them.
“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.” And he said he would do it again.
They want to kill us all.
Apparently, the death penalty is alive and well in the Netherlands, so long as the executioner is a Muslim and the prisoner an infidel. No trial is needed.
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