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“Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC”

December 21, 2024/5 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

The lesson seems to be that even anti-Islam activists should not be allowed into Europe.

Breitbart: “Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC”

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According to reports, the Saudi Arabian man arrived in Germany in 2006 after allegedly fleeing his homeland for fear of persecution for being an atheist. He was granted asylum in Germany in 2016 and had been living in the town of Bernburg — near Magdeburg — where he worked as a psychiatrist.

After moving to Germany, the suspect reportedly established a service to assist other asylum seekers move to Germany. For this work, he was profiled in “several media outlets from FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to BBC to promote his mission for human rights in Saudi Arabia,” Welt reports.

The BBC noted in 2019 that he focussed on helping ex-Muslims flee from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region, with a particular focus on women.

In an interview with FAZ during the same year, Taleb proclaimed that he was “the most aggressive critic of Islam in history,” claiming that he was ostracized from the Muslim community in Germany over his atheism. In the article he also detailed his move to become a pro-asylum seeker activist in Germany.

An editor’s note attached to the article following him being identified as the suspected Magdeburg attacker, FAZ wrote: “This interview with Taleb Al A. was published in June 2019. Entries of the alleged assassin in the social media indicate that he has also been increasingly quarreling with Germany and its migration policy over the five and a half years since then. There are also signs of persecution delusions. Nothing of this was felt in 2019. Here is the unchanged wording of the conversation.”

Since then, Taleb A became increasingly critical of the German government and its migration agenda, accusing Berlin of promoting the “Islamization” of Europe. He appears to have been particularly angered over the acceptance rate of “Syrian jihadists” compared to ex-Muslims from Saudi Arabia.

While much media attention in the wake of the attack has focussed on statements Taleb made in support of the populist right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over its critiques of Islamic immigration, he apparently considered himself to be a leftist.

“Taleb A. said in the interview that he was not a right-winger and described himself as a leftist,” Der Spiegel reports.

The German news magazine also reports that Berlin security agencies received three warnings from Saudi Arabia about the suspect. They were also warned following a 2023 post vowing “revenge” against Germany for supposed persecution of Saudi Arabian refugees and that the country would pay a “price”. However, officials allegedly dismissed the statements and reportedly did not consider him to be a threat as a potential extremist.

In another post in 2024 reported by Welt, he is claimed to have said: “I assure you: If Germany wants war, we will have it. If Germany wants to kill us, we will slaughter them, die or proudly go to prison. Because we have exhausted all peaceful means, we have only encountered more crimes from the police, the state security service, the public prosecutor’s office, the judiciary and the Ministry of the Interior. Peace is of no use to them.”

There are increasing suggestions that the suspect may have suffered from some form of mental illness, with German media describing his posts online as having been “confused”.

According to the BILD newspaper, a saliva drug test taken after the attack indicated that the suspect may have been intoxicated at the time of the attack. While it is currently unclear what drug he may have been on, the paper notes that the test scans for seven different drugs, including amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, cocaine, and methamphetamines (MDMA, ecstasy).

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5 replies
  1. Shitting Bull
    Shitting Bull says:
    December 21, 2024 at 1:30 pm

    Why then kill German Christians and not Islamic Jihadists?

  2. Rudi
    Rudi says:
    December 22, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    You can’t make that up: “The name Abdulmohsen means ‘a driver or wheel maker that brings joy’.”

  3. Alfonso
    Alfonso says:
    December 22, 2024 at 8:23 pm

    I recently saw the Guinness prize for the most remote-controlled drones from China. Most of the time, as is common in their culture, a dragon is depicted. To be honest, I don’t find this at all celebratory. I find it rather disconcerting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaSXwpKzGk

    As far as I know, it was the Germans or Austrians who perfected this. I think this “Sky Elements” is one of them. The Chinese are the inventors of fireworks. When we see Father Christmas, it has at least distant echoes of our culture.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIc969qtYo

    I think there’s enough light pollution and illuminated advertising in the world, but somewhat deficient cultures like the Chinese are completely enraptured by it and build a new coal-fired power station every day to feed these robots.

  4. Alfonso
    Alfonso says:
    December 22, 2024 at 8:52 pm

    I thought so: “The development of illuminated advertising is closely associated with German inventors, particularly Heinrich Geißler. He was a German glassblower who, in 1853, installed the first documented light advertising display using high-voltage gas discharge tubes in his workshop in Bonn. Geißler developed the gas discharge tube, which later became known as “Geißler tubes,” and he was the first to bend these tubes into letters to create glowing signs.

    However, the invention of neon advertising, which represents a significant advancement in illuminated advertising, was the work of the French inventor Georges Claude. He developed the neon tube in 1909 and patented his technique in France in 1910. Therefore, while German pioneers like Geißler played a crucial role in the early development of illuminated advertising, the specific concept of neon advertising was ultimately invented by a Frenchman.”

  5. Harold
    Harold says:
    December 23, 2024 at 12:32 am

    What the f-ing hell is “contextual communication”? Let’s look at a German individual in the confrontation with his internationalist environment. How do Germans view Americans? Probably somewhat intellectually limited, but relaxing in the overall view: “Education does not have air sovereignty in America!” Americans are thought to be stupid, although this contradicts all research.

    The American has a connection to the German, because being German belongs to him. He quickly breaks the ice and warms the cold heart. The American is fundamentally fascinated by German discipline and order because of his sloppiness and carelessness. But he cannot wish for an orderly, clean and punctual life, because order means lack of freedom and spontaneity.

    I wonder where the prejudice that Americans are stupid comes from? I can tell you where it comes from, namely from the same Jewish media that make Americans believe that being German ultimately means nothing more than unscrupulous criminality. This has already been the success of these sleeplessly active propagandists working in the background in two world wars.

    Americans have the most sought-after elite universities in the world on the labor market (like Germany 100 years ago), so they can’t be completely stupid. Unless, as expected, Jews reign supreme at these elite universities, and it is Jews who graduate 50 percent of their degrees there. That’s why the German only knows the Yankee, the cowboy, the street American. And he is in fact even ruder than himself.

    How do Germans react to interaction with Jews? Are they sincere, direct, unbending, even proud? Of course not. They know: where Jews appear, danger lurks, there is a hidden minefield! They takes cover inside, as they did in the trenches of the wars. They will avoid and evade any confrontational honesty, declare their “historical German guilt” and (gritting teeth, fist-bumping) do what the Jews demand of them.

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