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Report: German Xmas market attacker is Saudi anti-Islamist who shared pro-Israel content (www.timesofisrael.com)

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The suspect in the deadly ramming at a Christmas market in Germany on Friday was an anti-Islam activist who shared pro-Israel content on social media in the wake of the October 7 attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported.

According to the Journal report, the suspect, a Saudi national who had moved to Germany in 2006, ran a website and social media channels warning against Islam and discussing women’s rights, as well as posting content in support of Israel.

He also showed support for Germany’s far-right anti-immigration AfD party, the report said.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago

Interesting what this guy and Elon Musk have in common..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This guy is just the wildest mixture of things. Pretty much everything you hear is somewhat contradictory. It seems he is just straight up insane - tangled up in trauma, confusion, anger, lies and conspiracy theories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

He was wrong, but Im not sure he had contradictory beliefs.

The only thing that stands out IMO is him being for AfD - but that makes sense if you note that anti-immigration sentiment among ex-muslims is actually specificallt against muslim immigration, not immigration in general (Im exmuslim and spent a bunch of time in online exmuslim spaces)

He ran a forum to help atheist Saudis seek asylum, and his last tweets were among other things anger at the German failure to help Saudi asylum seekers. Clearly not anti-immigration.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Huge L for local Council for not enough barriers. 2016.

Also, we need car-free city centers.