Mohammed Bouyeri, a baby-faced 27-year-old with joint Moroccan and Dutch nationality, limped into court with what appeared to be a large Koran under one arm. Wearing a black, collarless gown and a black and white Palestinian-style headscarf, he smirked at the panel of three black-robed judges.
He offered no defence, instructing his lawyer to tell the court that he acknowledged only Islamic law.
Bouyeri had refused to attend his trial, a right normally granted to defendants by Holland's scrupulously liberal court system, but, in view of the impact of Mr van Gogh's murder in November, he was forced to attend the hearing in a maximum security building in the Amsterdam suburb of Osdorp.
Bouyeri displayed contempt for the judges, prosecutors, psychologists and police. He yawned, stroked his beard, prodded his face with a pen and played an imaginary piano on his thighs.
LGF adds: (via different sources)
Bouyeri told judges he had acted according to his convictions. Unrepentant, he told the victim’s mother — who was in court — that he did not sympathize with her loss and would be prepared to do the same again.
“If I ever get free, I would do it again,” he said.
Varelse is a concept developed by Orson Scott Card in his seminal works Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead. [Great books and well worth reading.] By definition, varelse is someone [something] so alien and dangerous that you can't know them and can't reach an understanding with them and the only alternative is war.
Bouyeri and his ilk want us dead not for what we do but for what we are.
Life in prison is foolish. He will not contribute in any way to any society we care to inhabit. The only sane thing to do with him is to throw him in a cold, dark prison, extract everything of value and hang him.
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