Robert Spencer on the Magdeburg jihad attack

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Don’t let the media fool you. If Al Abdul was primarily anti-muslim he would have driven into a muslim street festival.

There were massive demonstrations by syrian islamists celebrating Al Kaida the past weeks. Abdul did nothing.

He waited until it was 4 days before Christmas and exactly chose the spot where he would kill the most indigenous Germans: a Christmas market.

Robert Spencer
 
@jihadwatchRS
 
1. Vehicular jihad is a well-established practice going back years. ISIS has called for it. It is not a common practice among any other criminal or terrorist sector. 2. Saudi Arabia, where the Magdeburg perpetrator is from, is a hotbed of jihad activity. 3. Islam has doctrines calling for warfare against unbelievers. See Qur’an 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc. etc. 4. Islam has doctrines calling for deception under certain circumstances. See here: jihadwatch.org/2022/06/niger- 5. Jihad groups have been calling for attacks on German Christmas Markets. 6. Several jihad plots against Christmas Markets have already been foiled. 7. Muslims recently marched through a German Christmas market screaming “Allahu akbar” and “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.” 7. It seems that the perp has been claiming to be an ex-Muslim — and a Zionist! — and has contacted several anti-jihad media figures, asking them to interview him. This leads to several possibilities. a. That he was a sincere ex-Muslim and Zionist, and decided to attack a target of jihadis in a manner in which jihadis often attack, for no clear reason. b. He was lying, in preparation for his jihad attack. c. He was a genuine ex-Muslim, but in a moment of personal crisis returned to Islam, and realized that he had to do a great deed to outweigh his apostasy on Allah’s big judgment scales (Qur’an 21:47). Muhammad teaches that no deed is greater than jihad, so he went for a jihad attack. Of those three possibilities, the first one is the least likely. Why? Because if he was an ex-Muslim who went mad, he would be much more likely to have targeted Muslims, rather than choosing a favored target of the very jihadis he despised. The establishment media will be insisting that he is an ex-Muslim and never consider the possibility of deception or a return to Islam. That’s because they don’t know about those possibilities and because they always do whatever they can to distance Islam from the violence done in its name and in accord with its teachings. But their claims in this case are quite flimsy.