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> Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here,

Did you forget (or not hear) the Magdeburg x-mas market car attacker was an AfD supporter and antiislamic? And the Mannheim one was a German gardener with "Reichsbürger" connections?

It doesn't quite make for snappy headlines, so a lot of people never hear these details…




The Madgeburg terrorist is a Saudi Arabic refugee which dislikes the Islam and not really an AfD supporter, but mentioned that he liked some position regarding the Islam critique the party has.

The Mannheim terrorist is indeed a German but I guess that the exception confirms the rule.

Overall all extrem attacks if from right, left, foreigners are an issue and need to be adressed accordingly. The problem which the Germany people have with the current state of affairs is that the bad behaving asylum seekers mostly the ones from the middle east get a soft treatment to say the least when they commit heinous crimes and the deterrence of appropriate punishment through law and order is not given.


You call someone who has lived in Germany for 18 years a refugee, and dismiss his AfD sympathies. That says nothing about him and everything about you really.

Try to look a little bit beyond your polarized bubble. I'll be happy to meet you halfway there.


Well he is official an political refugee in Germany because of his anti islamic activist activity, his origin country wants to prosecute him. He was until his arrest an anti islamic activist and had a very active social media presence in which he lamented about the way Europe and especially Germany are handling the refugee crisis which are mostly Muslims. In this context he reposted and referred to some AFD politicians and their position on the crisis. Does that make him an AFD supporter?

Afaik his social media was so messy that people would connect him to various even contradicting things. That the big press settled with AFD supporter after they found some repost is lazy and misleading.


This clearly isn't going anywhere. Let's pull up https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Terroranschl%C3%A4... instead. It seems roughly 50/50 islamist and Nazi terrorists (with 2 left terrorists mixed in.)

If we can agree that half the problem is Nazis and the other half is Islamists, I'm OK with that. Deal?

(Yes I'm ignoring the left attacks. They targeted objects/property, not people.)




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