well apparently he did end up making a statement
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed Tuesday, saying he was driven by religious conviction. ``I don't feel your pain,'' he told the victim's mother.
Mohammed Bouyeri stunned the courtroom when, in the final minutes of his two-day trial he declared: ``If I were released and would have the chance to do it again ... I would do exactly the same thing.''
``What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. ... I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his prophet,'' he said.
Bouyeri, 27, faces life imprisonment in the Nov. 2 killing of Van Gogh, who was shot, stabbed and nearly beheaded on an Amsterdam street. A verdict is to be handed down this month.
Bouyeri glanced at notes, paused between sentences and chose his words carefully. Some spectators rose to their feet as he spoke, visibly stunned by his comments.
At one point, he addressed the victim's mother, Anneke, who was sitting in the public gallery. ``I have to admit I don't have any sympathy for you,'' he said. ``I can't feel for you because I think you're a nonbeliever.''
The killing is believed to have been an act of retribution for Van Gogh's film ``Submission,'' which criticized the treatment of women under Islam. ...
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Yeah there's really no place for these beliefs in Western society. Lock him up and let him rot I say. He also made statements about how he knows paradise awaits him in the afterlife, so padded walls and suicide watch seem appropriate. Really the death penalty seems too lenient for this guy.