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He attacked a Christmas market, does it matter if he secretly supports AFD? If he wasn't brought to Germany he wouldn't have committed this act. It really is easy for the right to portray it favorable terms. It is also gives leftists the opportunity to frame this of course in a manner that tries to deflect from it. I have seen both.
According to Keith woods he was a zionist leftist who wanted more muslim migration that commited this act because Germany is not doing enough to give asylum from Saudi Arabia.
If that is correct then this is a leftist but not Islamic, pro migration terrorism act. Exactly the opposite that is claimed bellow. If of course it is true.
Edit: Woods quotes the terrorist in 2023 saying that he will make the German nation pay the price of the crimes committed by the goverment against Saudi refugees. He also says that he will take revenge even if it costs him his life. https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1870428721632481719?t=TeBZdhjRJUJdWKMBMS-5nQ&%3Bs=19
It is certainly correct to limit people like this guy from coming to one's country.
Moreover, it seems almost everyone forgets that the biggest genocide commited by Muslims against Christians was not commited by the biggest muslim fanatics even though Islamism has been an element of this. I am talking about the genocide of Christians Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, by the Muslim populations of Turkey. Of which secular Kemalists who also called for Jihad had been a core component as has been Turkish nationalism. The ethnic resentments of people like this, and not just any human capital problems is something that has been way too understated. A secular muslim might still carry both ethnic resentments related to his homeland or even the general Muslim population. Just like with other groups who aren't particularly religious but still are hostile foreigners.
Look, I'm not interested in defending this guy, but this is misleading. Based on the political sentiments he expressed - anti-Islam and pro-Israel (basically in line with mainstream right-wing parties in the West) - he is not advocating for Muslim immigration; rather, he's upset that, in his view, Germany is not doing enough to protect apostates, Saudi women who want to escape the country, political dissidents, and similar types of people. I don't see how you can call him a leftist.
Being pro Israel isn't something that makes someone right wing. Much of the mainstream that pretends to be right wing is not right wing especially in a country like Germany and is in fact insufficiently pro their people to qualify as anything but extremists against their own civilization. Now technically it is possible to be a European nationalist who is unwisely fanatically Zionist. But being pro Israel is quite compatible with being a leftist extremist. Indeed most Jews that are organized politically and make the biggest mark through their influence (such as rich donors, the most prominent activists, and powerful figures) manage to combine Zionism, with Jewish nationalism and hostility against countries like Germany. We also see non Jews have this combo. At minimum it is insufficient to stop someone from being a leftist.
In this forum we have had various people argue for the very far left ideology that combines Jewish nationalism with arguing for the extinction of nations like Germany because the German, or white nations in general continuing to exist is somehow a threat to Jewish identity and Jews. Which is ridiculously hostile agenda against European nations on the ground of illegitimate excessive grievances and crybullying to the extreme. Making onerous demands for other nations destruction. This guy's Zionism was not an obstacle to his hatred of the German nation and his one sided ridiculous demands in favor of Saudi Arabian immigrants. Therefore you are trying to mislead here by claiming that his Zionism precludes him of leftism extremism when Israeli nationalism like his Saudi Arabian sympathies are perfectly compatible with an ideology of grievance against European nations.
Ultimately I would put Zionism more along the left in a European context than the right, or center, because of the association of the left with prioritizing other nations and the right with native nationalism. Else as it happened in practice, we get leftism with fake conservatives and right wingers calling themselves something different while giving the same.
The incompatibility of zionist movements with self respecting european nations is there when we consider how much zionism is associated with one sided demands and the fact that the prominent Zionist organizations are hostile to European nations, including their right of preservation, national sovereignty,self determination, independent foreign policy. The combo of people who are Zionists but want people to be loyal to Israel and not to their own nation and give preferential treatment to Israel and Jews that isn't provided to one's own nation including with censorship and cancel culture, is such a sufficiently dominant element of Zionist influence that it can't be disregarded.
Pro Muslim anti Zionism would also fit more within the left. Being anti Zionist is also insufficient to stop someone from being a leftist in a European context, of course since it is possible to hold other grudges, follow the anti european grievance ideology and even blame Israeli policies on European countries and wish for revenge, including one that is about migration replacement.
The Saudi Arabian refugees would be Muslims, no? If not, I would grant that he was pro migration of Arabs but not Muslims. But I am not sure that the Saudi Arabian women he wishes to be refugees would not include any Muslims. But that doesn't change his pro foreign identity anti German sentiments.
As for him being a leftist. As we have seen Zionism is not a get out of jail free card for leftist extremism and in fact some of the worst far left extremists, especially more establishment make their arguments from a Jewish nationalism perspective and are Zionists (though in Germany even the antifa is pro Israel IIRC). The ADL is the organization most representative of this but really it isn't rare whatsoever for people to combine Zionism with Anti European hostility and cry-bullying oppression narratives.
The guy is pro migration and he hates Germany for not doing enough for foreigners and refugees. That fits well enough within the left. You can't but call him a leftist when he is upset about that and he is motivated to commit a terrorist attack. If a German nationalist hated foreigners and committed an attack on foreign groups due to his hatred of said foreigners the result would be countless of people to label him a right winger or a far right. The left should be identified with hatred against European nations by foreigners and pro migration sentiments because that accurately captures a sufficiently pervasive characteristic of its ideology, even if most leftists wouldn't prefer it manifests in the way it did with this attack.
You are trying to square a circle here when claiming you can't call him a leftist and you are making a special pleading that much fewer would dare if some figure pattern matches as much for a right wing figure as this guy is a far left foreign terrorist. The left should act honorably and accept their problem of anti European extremism and how such people with such sentiments acting against Europeans fit within the left wing ideological perspective. They ought to moderate and abandon the ideology that disregards the interests and survival of European nations so this hostility it helps cultivate is no longer such common characteristic of the left wing agenda with predictable results not only here but others like Pakistani rape gangs. Not to mention he wouldn't be in Germany in the first place without the influence of left wing ideology. And remember the mainstream fake right of Merkel that has no problem with aligning with the other parts of the left and trying to stop any deviation from the anti-native dogma of the left are not blameless and outside the problem of anti-German pro foreign extremism.
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Was this man actively “treating” patients while saying all this?
Good Lord.
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