{"id":1394224,"date":"2022-03-22T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394224"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:30:54","slug":"germany-admits-radical-islam-not-mental-issues-likely-motivated-mass-stabbing-by-syrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-admits-radical-islam-not-mental-issues-likely-motivated-mass-stabbing-by-syrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Admits Radical Islam, NOT Mental Issues, Likely Motivated Mass Stabbing by Syrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgermany-admits-radical-islam-not-mental-issues-likely-motivated-mass-stabbing-by-syrian%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite initially ruling out terrorism, officials have now said that radical Islam, not mental health issues, was the likely motivation for a Syrian knifeman\u2019s stabbing spree on a German train.<\/p>\n<p>There are \u201cserious indications\u201d that a migrant man who went on a knife rampage in Germany back in November was inspired by radical Islam, the local prosecutor\u2019s office has reportedly said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is despite public officials initially ruling out the possibility of the attack being a terror event, claiming that there was no evidence for such a claim.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article237667717\/ICE-Messerangreifer-wohl-doch-islamistisch-extremistisch-motiviert.html\">report<\/a> by\u00a0<em>Die<\/em> <em>Welt<\/em>, however, the terror motive appears to be squarely back on the table, with the migrant man now believed to hold hardline Islamic views by prosecutors, including the desire to live in a state ruled in accordance with Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>Officials seem to have come to this view via the testimony of those who knew the man, as well as reports that he had in his possession radical Islamic propaganda supposedly produced by Islamic State calling for attacks to be perpetrated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prosecutors also believe the 27-year old rejects the very notion of a Western democratic nation, with <em>Die Welt<\/em> saying that the man seemingly\u00a0\u201cdisregards all Germans\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two Weeks After Fatal Stabbing, Knifeman Revealed as Known Islamist Extremist with ISIS Links <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wRIUDXieWg\">https:\/\/t.co\/wRIUDXieWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1319570456198979584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The comments made by German officials in regards to the rampaging Syrian migrant stands in complete contrast to initial claims made by police shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-police-rule-out-terrorism-in-bavaria-train-attack\/a-59746894\">at the time<\/a>, there was no evidence of any sort of terror motive for the incident, despite\u00a0<em>Die Welt<\/em> now reporting that ISIS propaganda was apparently found on the knifeman\u2019s very person.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was reported that the man had reportedly shown signs of suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and that he believed people were following him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere are no indications of an Islamist background,\u201d claimed one official at the time regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>However, this initial rejection that the attack was terror-related was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/german-prosecutors-say-islamist-motive-possible-in-train-knife-attack\/\">rolled back<\/a> later by officials, who admitted that a terrorist motive was being looked at as a possible motivation for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndications pointing in this direction include the contents of the defendant\u2019s Facebook account and propaganda videos of the terrorist organization Islamic State found on him,\u201d prosecutors said according to a report drawn up by\u00a0AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The man has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/german-prosecutors-confirm-november-train-knife-attacker-had-extremist-motive\/\">sent to jail<\/a> after an expert said that he could be held criminally liable for his actions, which include wound four people, two near-fatally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Sky News and PA now say sources are reporting a multiple stabbing in Forbury Gardens, Reading, was &#8220;terror-related&#8221;. This contradicts earlier reports by the Telegraph that police were &#8220;understood to be treating the incident as a random attack&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipcXSLvBmy\">https:\/\/t.co\/ipcXSLvBmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1274458690247102470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite initially ruling out terrorism, officials have now said that radical Islam, not mental health issues, was the likely motivation for a Syrian knifeman\u2019s stabbing spree on a German train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}