The German Christmas Market Drive Attack
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Apparently the guy is a radical anti-Islamist.
German authorities are investigating a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany for almost two decades in connection with the car-ramming. Police searched his home overnight.
The motive remained unclear and police have not yet named the suspect. He has been named in German media as Taleb A.
A Saudi source told Reuters that Saudi Arabia had warned German authorities about the attacker after he posted extremist views on his personal X account that threatened peace and security.
Der Spiegel reported that the suspect had sympathised with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The magazine did not say where it got the information.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.
Germany's FAZ newspaper said it interviewed the suspect in 2019, describing him as an anti-Islam activist.
"People like me, who have an Islamic background but are no longer believers, are met with neither understanding nor tolerance by Muslims here," he was quoted as saying. "I am history's most aggressive critic of Islam. If you don't believe me, ask the Arabs." -
This still poses interesting questions about culture. The guy might be a radical anti-Islamist, but he did grow up in a culture that promoted acts of savagery and made heroes out of terrorists. Even if his motives were contrary, these were still the actions that his culture bled into him…
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Ever since I started college it was clear to me that many psych majors were in it to fix themselves. If they weren't whacked out when they went in they were by the time they graduated. Too much barefooting around in one's own head.
A little introspection can be a good thing, but I think most people are better off just to follow their own instincts.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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We used to get quite a few MDs coming into the music store who were audiophiles. All were quirky in their own peculiar way as are most audiophiles. Of that group of a dozen or so doctors, four were psychiatrists. All four stood out in their own obsessive and socially eccentric behaviours from their colleagues in medicine. Quite odd actually.
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A few years ago, I went to an estate sale where the individual who passed was a CD collector. It was the first time where I encountered a collection that was comparable - or possibly larger than mine. He also had a large library of books. The house was dark - windows covered - most walls dedicated to shelves for the books and CDs. The deceased owner had been a psychiatrist. Being a whack job myself, I considered buying his total collection which I could have had for a very modest sum - but being married - and having a slight sense of self preservation, I restrained myself.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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A few years ago, I went to an estate sale where the individual who passed was a CD collector. It was the first time where I encountered a collection that was comparable - or possibly larger than mine. He also had a large library of books. The house was dark - windows covered - most walls dedicated to shelves for the books and CDs. The deceased owner had been a psychiatrist.
One of the psychiatrists who purchased truckloads of classical CDs, hired someone to come to his home and catalogue his collection of music. It took six months.
As an aside, the psychiatrist when I met him in 2014 was already on his fourth marriage. I think that by the time I fully retired six years later, that one had ended and he was contemplating that perhaps the marriage thing wasn’t for him after all. Wasn’t too sure though.
