Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are too good for these people.

The man on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh (search) admitted his guilt in court Tuesday, declaring he acted out of religious conviction and would do it again if given the chance.

Mohammed Bouyeri (search) also turned to Van Gogh's mother, Anneke, in court and told her: "I don't feel your pain."

"I can't feel for you because I think you're a nonbeliever," he said...

"I did it out of conviction," Bouyeri said. "If I ever get free, I would do it again."...

"I shot to kill and to be killed. You cannot understand," he said, addressing police officers in the public gallery whom he fired upon eight months ago.

Indeed. Nevertheless, the politically correct liberals among us insist that we try to "understand" our enemy, rather than destroy him.

This guy's purely violent hatred for non-Muslims is so visceral and consuming that he is inhuman. Read the whole thing if you ever thought these terrorists deserve anything but complete elimination from our world. The EU should also think about a death penalty for such cases.

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