Posted on 07/12/2005 10:31:26 AM PDT by B Knotts
The self-confessed killer of Theo van Gogh faced the victim's mother in an Amsterdam court today and told her he felt no remorse for his crime.
Turning his chair towards Anneke van Gogh as she watched from the public gallery, the Moroccan-born 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 he was driven by his religious beliefs, and claimed he would do the same again. Mr Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants to the Netherlands, is accused of shooting and stabbing van Gogh to death in broad daylight in the streets of Amsterdam in November, before nearly decapitating him and impaling a five-page note declaring holy war into his corpse with a knife.
Despite insisting on his right to silence when the trial opened yesterday, Mr Bouyeri spoke out publicly today for the first time about the murder which sparked a wave of ethnic and religious violence across the once-tolerant country.
Clutching a Koran, and wearing a flowing robe and a black and white chequered headscarf, Mr Bouyeri praised Allah and the prophet Mohammed 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 ritualistic slaughter, van Gogh had produced a film about domestic violence in Islam, which offended many Muslims. Mr 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 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 the mainstream Dutch society about the seemingly unbridgeable gap between them and some of the alienated Muslim youths growing up in the country.
Mr Bouyeri, 27, was a well-educated moderate Muslim who was considered reasonably well integrated, before becoming radicalised nearly two years ago. Prosecutors say that he had become dedicated to Holy War against the enemies of Islam and had murdered van Gogh to spread terror in the Netherlands.
They claim he is part of a network of Islamic with international links called the Hofstad Group, many of whose members are awaiting trial on terrorism charges in Rotterdam. The chief prosecutor, Frits van Straelen, 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. Mr Bouyeri faces life imprisonment without probation.
"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."
Freedom fry the ugly islamic monster.
Islamic head hackers are, as a group, self-selected for stupidity.
"some"? "moderate"? Uh, huh.
Death penalty, please. Why should the Dutch have to pay for this savage's food and shelter for the rest of his life?
ISLAM RELIGION OF PEACE.................Just ask the mother of reporter Daniel Pearl.......
Stunned because they don't have a clue about the threat under which they live. Will this enlighten them? We'll see.
Time to fit this one out for a pork-rind burial suit.
That tirade should be played on all media, worldwide.
That is TRUTH.
That is the voice of Islam.
Islam is death, destruction and terror.
It is unapologetic, unrelenting and unchanged since it's founding.
Have the courage to believe the truth when it is screamed in your face.
Well, here's hoping that the Dutch prison system is home to some of the Aryan Brotherhood types. Bet there's a significant Muslim prison population that'll try to protect this piece of filth, though.
That tirade should be played on all media, worldwide.
That is TRUTH.
That is the voice of Islam.
Islam is death, destruction and terror.
It is unapologetic, unrelenting and unchanged since it's founding.
Have the courage to believe the truth when it is screamed in your face.
Perhaps Amsterdam prison inmates will "welcome" this murderer in a way fitting a remorseless killer of a legendary artist's kin. Wake up, western Europe "non-believers," and start annihilating this extremist scum.
This guy is a true rarity, a honest muslim.
once again we must suffer more from the "religion of peace"
If this sub-human mooselimb puke wants to be a martyr so bad - I say make him one.
***Be hard to convict this guy, he sounds so sincere. <(•¿•)>***
Remember the mantra of the hippies in the late 1960's and early 70's?
"It is alright as long as you are sincere."
AP had this stroy up and had a quote from the scumbag terrorist that basically said he did it in the name of his religion, yet nothing in the article stated which religion, also they called him a Dutch/Moraccon.
"Mr Bouyeri faces life imprisonment without probation..."
He'll be out in five years.
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