Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age? | Kenan Malik
Lack of faith in political leaders is leading the socially disaffected to be seduced by violence
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the horror attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, does not, Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, observed, “fit any existing mould”. He had acted in “an unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an Islamist terrorist, though he was clearly ideologically hostile to Islam”.
Faeser is not alone in her confusion about how to understand Abdulmohsen.
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