I Pray to my Lord Everyday

t Bouyeri explained he would do exactly the same thing if he was ever paroled, and addressed Van Gogh’s mother directly:

He argued that he did not kill her son, “but I have chopped off his head according to the law that orders me to do so to everyone who offends Allah. I do not feel your pain as I do not know what it is to suffer the loss of a child”

In an earlier post:

One of the absolute benefits of the Van Gogh trial is the fact that in Mohammed Bouyeri we have pure, unrefined jihadist material at our disposal like we have never had it before. The 9/11 hijackers perished together with their innocent victims, many hardcore al-Qaeda and Taliban members have been killed in Afghanistan, the al-Zarqawi division in Iraq is decimated regularly, a number of the Madrid bombers equally perished to the afterlife, and there’s no sign of the London attackers as of yet. What we have been able to incarcerate so far in my opinion is second-tier material, a number of the residents of Gitmo have started talking and some of them have even been released. Not so with Bouyeri, who is likely to remain behind bars forever, silently. And although he won’t say anything and refuses to co-operate, just by observing him we can paint a pretty scary picture, one that reminds us again of what we’re actually fighting.

Possessing a video collection “with horrific scenes of mutilations, amputations, and liquidations”, and a terrifying religious zeal, it is indeed a scary picture. When asked why he became so radicalised, he answered, “the only thing I can answer to that is that I pray to my Lord everyday. That he keeps me from thinking in any other way than I do now”