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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Germans mourn the 5 killed, 200 injured in attack on Christmas market
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, GEIR MOULSON and VANESSA GERA MAGDEBURG, Germany©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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finally rich
"Diversity is our strenght"
TaiwanIsNotChina
Sounds like a false flag operation where the perpetrator knew people would be too gullible to look past his name.
ok1517
A doctor from Saudi-Arabia, an admirer of the far-right German AfD, .....
Anyone who still thinks it's the Islamists only should correct their position.
This was a man who lived in Germany for almost 20 years.
A sleeper? Don't think so.
More like indoctrinated my far-right views.
May those, who won't see this Christmas rest in peace.
kurisupisu
Either the German state acts to keep its citizens safe or there will be a civil war.
sakurasuki
That's really weird incident happened before Christmas time.
CanuckNikkei
Germany suffers so much because of Muslims. Rest in peace to those murdered;
and, my hopes and prayers for those many, many who were injured.
sakurasuki
@CanuckNikkei
Majority of people not interested to emigrated outside their country, being separated from their family and leave their job. Please check again, who really stirred conflict in middle east and central asia, whose weapons and money being used?
Those weapon and money, create conflicts where at the end there will be influx of refugee.
kurisupisu
The attack on Germans seems to be motivated by frustration at the lack of legal procedure and stonewalling by the authorities in Germany.
The doctor seems to be angry at the duplicity of the German government with regards to the treatment of migrants fleeing from repressive Islamic regimes.
This information will most likely emerge going forward but it seems to be damning for the German government.
GuruMick
Yes, and how many jumped the comment gun and saw this as an "Islamist plot " ?
Not me.
Now it seems perp.held ANTI ISLAM veiws and was critical of mass immigration of Muslims to Europe.
At least this was reported in Aust. media, based on perps. web posting.
Again, dont slander a whole portion of the planet based on the actions of a few.
bass4funk
Now why is that?
It still doesn’t take away the large Islamist problem in Germany
The length and time living in a country won’t determine whether you become a terrorist or not
We don’t know that yet.
I agree.
itsonlyrocknroll
Can you trust have confidence in the main stream media, government?
These news reports are not a narrative led, propaganda driven fake news?
The suspect appears to be a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist, anti Muslim, arrived in Germany as a refugee/asylum seeker, 2006, an atheist.
Yet reportedly a convert to Christianity, an Adf supporting "far right" extremist, also a convicted criminal wanted by Saudi Arabia police security services,
There is "evidence" of the suspect confirming a web service/organisation to aid refugees/asylum seekers to migrate to Germany.
Yet the suspect is also accused of an Islamic practice known as Taqiyya, concealing one's religious beliefs and practices, or foregoing religious duties.
I suspect/suggest the public is being mislead, manipulated, a concerted propaganda agenda to quell the people of Germany on the brink/verge of panic.
A German public returning to the ballot box February 2025.
The suspect is reportedly anti west, anti Christian, anti German, anti Islam. yet with a documented Shia background.
Germans mourn the 5 killed, 200 injured in attack on Christmas market
Well there better be some answers pronto. some honesty, transparency
*GuruMick
Times of Israel noting Wall Street journal report says man had also posted pro Israel stuff.
People who jumped the gun....looking like the opposite of what you originally wrote.
Islamophobia has not time or need for details , it seems.
GuruMick
Bass ...your "we dont know that yet " is a little absurd given the assumptions you posted....now wrong....which "you did know now "
But no offence meant.
bass4funk
How? My assumptions are based on historical indisputable facts, has nothing to do with my personal stance or beliefs
You think so??
None taken..
wallace
It's not an Islamic Jidhist attack—a disarranged doctor with the capacity to kill.
Yrral
He was an anti Islamist extremist
Mr Kipling
Germany is paying the price for it's open door policy on the people it lets in. Not all cultures are compatible with modern European values. Stop pretending they are.
wallace
Mr Kipling
70,000 foreign doctors are working in healthcare. Do you want them deported?
WoodyLee
This is so sickening to the point that makes you think our world has lost it, why would a thug like this go and kill innocent civilians in a HOST country that gave him a future??
What drove him to this level of rage ?
I hope that the German prosecutors demand the death penalty .
bass4funk
I did, nothing funny about it and that’s not proof.
So he’s an apostate?
If you’re Muslim, you can’t leave the faith in theory
According to whom? Can you confirm this?
Yrral
US , German suffer so.much because of German,I am not downplaying what happened,but German has done cruelty on a mass scale than what happened Friday
Yrral
Woody, German do have the death penalty
wallace
WoodyLee
Sorry to break it to you. There isn't one.
wallace
bass4funk
explain why there have been more terrorist attacks by the radical left and extreme right than Islamic Jihadists.
bass4funk
What does that have to do with the Islam community being at odds and pushing against their Christian host nation? Stay on point. Left radical politics are and have been a huge part of German culture for over 150 years, same people, nation but it has nothing Islam and the increasing problems it poses.
GuruMick
So Bass, you're down with what "the Islamic community " in Germany thinks and acts ?
Any thoughts on the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS Islam people in Indonesia and Malaysia.?
I mean, being Islam means everyone, including those in Germany/Europe, all think the same ?
I remember post war 2 , up to the 80,s Australia had millions of migrants from Europe.
Lots of prejudice and resistance, but worked out OK.
And now we more than Spag. Bol. to eat as "foreign food "
FizzBit
Word on the net is that Saudi Arabia warned the German government 3 times about this guy and that he wanted to "kill Germans".
bass4funk
I’m not concerned in how they think.
None, most are overwhelmingly law-abiding, they don’t have a history of engaging in radical Islam across Europe or the U.S. that is why Trump’s travel ban didn’t extend to Indonesians
A lot
I see
Because they were Christian’s?
I see
Five Families
But why mow down Germans? Makes no sense. Islam like any other faith has a right to thrive anywhere.
Not every Islamic believer is a terrorist. Or radicalized.
Here is the sad thing. He is guilty and no question about thast.
The most severe punishment in Germany is life imprisonment, which has no set length. After serving 15 years, a person sentenced to life imprisonment can usually apply for parole.
Maybe Germany needs to be very harsh on this Terrorist. Doctor or not. Saudi or not. Yes I am implying a revision to German law. Capital Punishment.
No matter what faith you follow. We need to find a way to co-exist and stop the killing.
If they incline to peace, incline you as well to it, and trust in Allah…”(Qur'an 8:61). This verse demonstrates that peaceful coexistence among Muslims and between non-Muslims is one of the core values of Islam and this is an invitation to Muslims to coexist peacefully with other religions.
Abraham and Lot
Abraham pleaded with Lot to choose a land so that they could coexist peacefully. Lot chose the plain of the Jordan toward Zoar and pitched his tent near Sodom, while Abraham lived in the land of Canaan.
Co-existence. Core values. No matter where you look. What book you look in. Violence is a choice. Personal choice. Period.
bass4funk
And what about the 2 million Muslims that do have a problem with Christianity
falseflagsteve
Been seeing some facts about this monster. He is an Islamic extremist who wishes for the end of Israel and mass Muslim immigration to the West. He is a wanted criminal in Saudi Arabia, an all round bad egg with desires to Islamify Europe.
His claims to have turned his back on Islam are a con, no doubt did so he could commit this horrendous crime.
His recent online activities on social media prove this without a shadow of a doubt.
wallace
falseflagsteve
You are wrong.
His recent online activities on social media prove this without a shadow of a doubt.
None of that appears in the article about him. Quite the opposite.
"Describing himself as a former Muslim, the suspect appears to have been an active user of the social media platform X, sharing dozens of tweets and retweets daily focusing on anti-Islam themes, criticizing the religion and congratulating Muslims who had left the faith.
He also accused German authorities of failing to do enough to combat what he referred to as the “Islamification of Europe.”
bass4funk
I never said it was, I am just saying neither of us know, but I do know how the police work in Germany and I do know the history having lived it, I am not convinced and you won't change that, you believe what you want, and I will do the same, but as I said, for me the big clue is the history, nothing more.
Correct and things have worsened since I left concerning the Islamic community