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.
"It was an accident, yer Honor. Really."
(This guy is a true rarity, a honest muslim.)
There's a lot of sins muslims are guilty of. Dishonesty is not one of them. They've been telling the West that they have us and want to kill us for decades. The Western nations are the guilty ones for not believing the message.
Silly me, just another Western liberally-educated infidel.
Well, this guy sounds in the Dutch court sounds like the perfect SOB.
Excuse me, but why is this person still breathing?
Is there any chance he could be incarcerated in a pig-sty?
Ideally, with some big hungry, well-tusked boars?
Just asking...
I wonder just how many muslims have become radicalized here in America and are waiting for the right moment to commit crimes like this.
Send him to Allah, albeit slowly.
"I can't feel for you because I think you're a non-believer."
"I did what I did purely out of my beliefs.... not ...because he was Dutch or because I ... felt insulted."
The world indeed needs to wake up to the truth about what is being taught as TROP (TM). These sub-humans don't need to be insulted, antagonized or motivated by President Bush to kill all us infidels. As Dr. Krauthammer has said, our waking up each morning is already sufficient antagonism for them to want to kill us. Since they desire death so willingly, let us assist them in their own death.
HF
Ping
.....................or are the Dutch a bunch of weenies?
There is no Islam but radical Islam, and "moderate" Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.
Yes- it's that simple. Many facts of life are.
Rain is wet. Fire burns. Ice is cold.
Islam's believers are commanded to hate all non-Muslims. In fact, only Muslims are 'people'-which leaves it wide-open as to what to do with/to 'non people/infidels'.
I agree 100%. But AMERICAN BORN Muslims are no less dangerous.It doesn't matter where you were born- it's what you believe. If you believe in Islam- you MUST obey Islam above all other laws/governments.
You believe an Islamic country/world is ideal.
It's not only foreign born Muslims who worry me.
What will it take to make people realise what islam is all about?
Their own scriptures themselves attest to the murderous mindset of moslems. It's the slackers who are the "moderates." The "radicals" are the ones who believe their own scriptures.
You would think that the Dutch would know about murderous radicals if they knew their history. The nazis weren't that long ago.
Dontcha just love Europeans?
They are so evolved. They'll give this monster jail time.
He deserves to be taken out behind the courthouse and shot.
This man's mother and father are immigrants that immigrated from another country and brought with them their religion, taught it to their son and more than likely condoned what he did. I don't think that any Muslim can assimilate into any country that has a different religion than Islam.
... less time for good behavior that they're every incarcerated Dutch prisoner is equally eligible for.
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