Eternal sunshine of the pointless mind

The ABC was boo-hooing last night about how concerned we all should be for the 'balance' of David Hicks' mind, and how this is suffering due to his detention. On the contrary, I worry that his most recent statements sound increasingly sane. He's now clever enough to start laying the groundwork that he didn't really do anything with Al-Qaeda, and that he was "appalled" by the 9/11 attacks. "It's not Islam", he is supposed to have said. No? But publicly executing women in a football stadium, by shooting them in the head point blank, for purely imaginary 'moral crimes'? Since that is the system Hicks travelled to Afghanistan to defend, presumably he considers that to be 'Islam'.