A lot of questions over the German Muslim who attacked Christmas…
Taleb’s X account describes him as a former Muslim. It is filled with tweets and retweets focusing on anti-Islam themes and criticism of the religion, while sharing congratulatory notes to Muslims who left the faith.
He was critical of German authorities, saying they had failed to do enough to combat the “Islamism of Europe.”
He has also voiced support for the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Some described Taleb as an activist who helped Saudi women flee their homeland. Recently, he seemed focused on his theory that German authorities have been targeting Saudi asylum-seekers.
Prominent German terrorism expert Peter Neumann posted on X that he had never before come across a suspect in an act of mass violence with that profile.
“After 25 years in this ‘business’ you think nothing could surprise you anymore. But a 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim who lives in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance toward Islamists — that really wasn’t on my radar,” he wrote.
…meanwhile more research on conspiracy theories…
Why do Kiwis fall down the rabbit hole? The surprising things researchers just learned
- Many Kiwis believe in some conspiracy theory – whether it’s that the All Blacks were poisoned on the eve of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, or that man never landed on the Moon
- Studies show that it’s not the uneducated – nor is it the left or right of politics – that exclusively buy into these beliefs, but those with some unmet psychological need
- Now, a team of researchers have delved into data tracking tens of thousands of Kiwis to learn more about the roots of conspiracy thinking
…I think what we are seeing with the German incident is the impact of social media hate algorithms and the true nature of our culture of loneliness.
What’s interesting with the NZ survey is that it misses out the loneliness factor and I think that is key to understanding the phenomena.
A 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim who lives in East Germany, loves the AfD and wants to punish Germany for its tolerance toward Islamists – how does that happen?
Social media hate algorithms and crippling loneliness in a 24/7 ‘connected’ world.
Covid was a universal experience, we all sacrificed equally in an unequal world, it has had enormous impacts on us and one of those enormous impacts has been crippling loneliness.
More and more of us are lonely and it was kicked off by being forced to stay home during the pandemic.
That loneliness is desperately corrosive to the spirit and to the person, and the dichotomy of intense loneliness combined with mass 24/7 social media connectivity has made many of us insane with a level of anger and feral hate that is the call signs of a terribly tortured individual.
We have been brainwashed by hate algorithms for the profit margins of vast Tech Gods.
The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.
We are but meat bags secreting hormones addicted to dopamine rewards for fat, sugar, salt and sex in a cultural landscape of individualism uber allas where we sing sweet secret lies to ourselves to make sense of a world around us that is frightening and in constant entropy.
Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.
Expect far more 50-year-old Saudi ex-Muslim type personalities with complex back stories that are all counter factual to becoming a terrorist erupting out of this supernova of loneliness and social media hate brainwashing.
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Martyn – The Saudi Doctor, aka Terrorist, saw things turning bad in Germany due to rapid immigration from Muslim nations…despite many Germans wanting a pause on this.
We are well aware that he was a zionist like you. Another filthy terrorist who supported the existence of ‘israel’.
Mohammed Khan – He was a practicing Muslim…
He openly supported ‘israel’. He wasn’t Muslim, he wasn’t even a human being.
He was Shi’a
He was an atheist ya zionazi dickhead
Dug far enough back into his tweets have you?
It says it in the article above you stupid cavewoman
His tweets belie the article honey. Learn Arabic.
Beautiful prose poem, especially ‘we are but meat bags …’ para, though please don’t use the hasbara term ‘self-hating’. An utterly anti-rational and so meaningless term.
A real Left govt (so not ‘Chippy’s lot’) could govern social media for truth and individuals.
About being alone, Ayn Rand and I at least agree on this, it’s a release from the group. For better and worse. My ancestral Scotland was an essentially corporatist place till the break-up of the clans after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. After that, in the Scottish Enlightenment, we produced the foremost philosophers for individualism in Smith and Hume. And we Scots went on to exploit the world, the old clan chiefs some of the worst. Unlike the English, we remember the oppression of the group but also miss the belonging.
When govt landbuyer Donald Maclean buggered the Maori tribes, separating them from their land, with the rewards of that he set up his farm in Hawke’s Bay. All the management were from his isle in the Hebrides and all the staff were gaelic-speakers. So, both an individual and a tribesman. Ideal!
Conspiracy theories are these days psychological needs ‘legitimized’ by over-profuse media sources. Also, faulty analytical abilities, but that describes the most of us.
My very alone 80-year-old English client never had an easy time in NZ — often physical work and bad partners — and not au fait with ideas and now alone in a strange town. This bright person grasped onto a simple story describing reality, which as we know is often ruined by the facts. That’s the world at the mo’.
THe AtLaS NeTwORk!!!
We have the COC government formed on the basis of misinformation.The upcoming election isn Germany will be interesting as the far right will be feeding the same hate based missinformation as the NACT NZF did here .Musk will feed them millions for the campain.
Meanwhile, we see what Elon Musk is actually promoting in the USA- terrorism against America’s flushing toilets.
Musk is the most dangerous man in the world right now .He clearly has fleeced billions from dumb share holders in the companies that employ him and now wants to take as much as he can from the rest of the populace .
Bit late to this party, but, he doesn’t appear to be the lonely sort, quite a busy bee by the looks. Apparently he had Zionist links but I can’t verify that at this stage, but at least one thing is for sure – he certainly is not a practicing Muslim!
“What we know about Magdeburg market attack suspect Abdulmohsen” – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy09y32rlnxo
Full 2019 BBC interview of this guy – https://x.com/EIshmael_/status/1870278920089608226
“I am the most aggressive critic of Islam in history” – 2019 interview – https://web.archive.org/web/20250102191655/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/anschlag-in-magdeburg-das-faz-interview-von-2019-mit-taleb-al-a-16235203.html