Thread by @althecat

This video is about the work done by the “terrorist” who drove through the Magdeburg Christmas Market tonight at high speed killing injuring around 100 people.

How does a doctor practicing as a psychiatrist go from being a women’s rights defender focussed on Assisting Islamic women to escape an oppressive culture to being a multi murderer in his adopted country.

Meet @DrTalebJawad

A very unusual terrorist.

A good starting point for those interested in getting closer to the truth about what happened tonight is to visit @DrTalebJawad ‘s Twitter profile and look at his recent messages before the account gets locked.

It is immediately apparent that this is not your normal Islamic terrorist, in fact it quickly becomes apparent from his tweets that he was likely suffering from a psychotic break or something similar before he committed the horrific act of terrorism in Magdeburg.

This incident took place in Magdeburg a city relatively near to where I am currently in Eastern Germany. It was fairly late evening. But the news exploded locally very quickly on Twitter.

And the initial speculation was of course that the terrorist was Islamic and that it was another planned terror attack.

At this point several hours later however it looks like the perpetrator was having an accrue psychological break.

As everyone will have seen in the video the car came into the market at massive speed hence the mass casualty count.

And after stopping the driver released a short video on his Twitter account thereby making it extremely clear who he was. The video was also a tell that something wasn’t right about the rapidly exploding media narrative which was heading towards Islamic terrorism being the explanation.

The quoted tweet above was posted when the penny dropped for me, after looking closely at @DrTalebJawad’s Twitter profile which was very odd but consistent with the video that @DrTalebJawad had posted to Twitter immediately after driving into the crowd.

I.E. it was consistent with a mental health explanation for the terror attack, albeit one that only partly explains what has happened here.

@DrTalebJawad And then I found a couple of local journalists on Twitter looking at this the same way, through a similar lens.

This is the translation of the quoted tweet below from journalist @Tarek_Bae. It is also an incredibly clear explanation, provided in astonishingly quick time of what really seems to happened here pointing to probable additional lines of inquiry.

If it is correct it is also an explanation about the attacker that suggests strongly that this attack was not an Islamic terrorist attack.

The psychiatrist perpetrator of this crime really does appear to have been experiencing an acute psychological breakdown of sone kind.

*****.

@Tarek_Bae:

“The suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg attack is an atheist, Islamophobe, pro-Israeli and AfD supporter. So what was the motive?

In principle, one should never look for rational reasons for such acts of violence. It is - as always - madness.

The suspect accused Germany of persecuting him. Delusional. He accused Germany of persecuting other (atheist) refugees. He accused Germany of not stopping "Islamization." In his (last) confession, he accused Germany of killing the Greek philosopher Socrates. That's confusing. But the bottom line is: Germany should fight Muslims more. Why did he attack a Christmas market? Can there even be a reason for something like that? Never. It's madness combined with ideology and hatred. But above all, madness. Like all terrorism. There is only one type of ideologue who reacts in a similarly insane way to such madness: racists who immediately incite hatred against groups of people. Like they did directly after Magdeburg. And now - unceremonious and undignified as they are - are slowly falling silent.

The victims and their families deserve better.”

“The suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg attack is an atheist, Islamophobe, pro-Israeli and AfD supporter. So what was the motive?”

^^ this raises a lot of questions, questions which the perpetrator is in all likelihood being interviewed about now as I write.

The mystery that remains is as @Tarek_Bae says motive. Why would a Saudi immigrant doctor who self identifies as a human rights activist supporting Islamic women and Christians find asylum in the west decide to suddenly kill a large number of his fellow Germans at a Christmas market.

Note: this is not the first European Christmas attack.

There will doubtless be a lot of speculation about this question in coming days, and the puzzle will be to explain how an atheist do-gooding Islamaphobe living in Germany could also come to be pro-Israeli and pro AFD.

Only the police will be able to answer this however. And it’s possible that the answer may require significant input from intelligence services personnel.

As indicated at the beginning of this thread the political implications of this terror attack for the upcoming German elections are significant in that AFD will likely get a significant bump in the polls.

International social media interference in the aftermath is another looming issue that will likely soon be in play.

Here is an earlier tweet from myself pertaining to the political issues. @ElonMusk has already started reaching out to AFD.

It will be interesting if the EC digital regulators comes after Musk and Twitter in the wake of this attack.

I think it should, and will do so. Musk went way too far with his extremist free speech halfwitry during the recent Right Wing Thug riots attacking mosques in the UK.

In the tweet quoted below you will see that @ElonMusk is using his platform to promote AFD propaganda in the lead up to the February elections.

I do not think @vonderleyen will be at all happy about this.

@DrTalebJawad @Tarek_Bae @elonmusk /ends @threadreaderapp unroll