Always interesting to see how bigots pivot once more information comes to light about any potential suspect. It turns out that the real world is complex, and people do the craziest things for a wide range of reasons.
It happens every single time. I'd rather focus on how we prevent such attacks in the future. What are the realistic options for stopping them altogether or minimising such attacks?
I think "bigots" is putting it a bit too strongly.
When we see attacks that involve mass casualties (in Europe) then the perpetrator nearly always is Muslim. Speaking the facts or commenting on a clear pattern is not being "bigoted".
The vast majority of Muslims are peaceful but that does not negate the glaring facts that a minority of that community are causing the majority of terrorist attacks on European soil.
To effectively try to shut down a much needed debate by calling people bigots is perpetuating the problem and by "debate" I do not mean on this forum but by our elected representatives.
The motives for this attack are currently unclear. Apparently, he was an "ex-Muslim" and even "anti-Islamic" (??). The background to this seems to be a lot more complex.
His X tweets portray someone who is avidly anti-Islamic and who claims he was being censored by the German authorities to such an extent that he turned his hatred towards Germany and the German institution......ironically manifesting his hatred by mowing down innocent Germans and presumably the majority were non-muslims.
