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A Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing five people, including a child, and injuring over 200.

The 50-year-old suspect, who had lived in Germany for nearly two decades, expressed anti-Islam views and supported far-right politics. Authorities believe he acted alone.

The attack shocked Germany, prompting other towns to cancel Christmas markets and increasing security measures nationwide.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz mourned the victims, and a memorial service is planned. Saudi Arabia condemned the attack, calling it a tragedy.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Right wingers suddenly start using the word Taqqiyah and claim this guy was hiding his religion. Which makes no sense considering this man was not only an atheist but campaigned against Islam and Muslims for more than ten years.

But really it goes to show the pretense of "we do not hate brown people, we hate Islam which is an ideology so we are not racist." was nothing but a sham as they will call any brown person a Muslim.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

Taqqiyah... in germany.

The saddest part is, there are a lot of real things to criticize islam about, i live in saudi arabia and i fear someone will discover that i am an atheist and be beheaded. But these guys don't care about that.

They don't hate islam, they hate arabs. But all of a sudden, when their own logic is used against them, all of a sudden it's different.

Their think their own discomfort with immigrants is more important than those immigrants escaping persecution. It happened just after the Syrian revolution where i saw a lot of europeans say "they'll leave europe now, right?".

It pisses me off more that these guys are probably german, too; they say shit like "never again" then they say bs like this. They act like they're more civilized than us, that we're savages, despite not even 100 years ago they committed one of the worst genocides in history, but they're not savages, WE are. My point isn't that they should be considered savages, But the hypocrisy is unreal to me.