The collective attack in Magdeburg (eastern Germany) could have had an Islamophobic motivation, and not an Islamist motivation, according to several German media outlets based on what they have been able to gather about the life of the alleged perpetrator, the Saudi doctor Taleb A.
The life of Dr. Taleb A, as shown in media such as the magazine The mirror or the diary Frankfurter Rundchaugoes through the abandonment of the Muslim faith, activism in favor of Saudi women and leads to open sympathies for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and in theories about an alleged plan to Islamize the Euro Cup, concocted according to him by former chancellor Angela Merkel.
Taleb A arrived in Germany in 2006 as a student and received asylum in July 2016 after receiving death threats for turning away from Islam. He lived and worked as a psychiatrist in Bernburg, a small town of 32,000 inhabitants on the banks of the Saale River between Magdeburg and Halle.
As an activist, she informed and advised Saudi women about the possibilities of fleeing their country and had a website with information about the German asylum system.
In an interview he gave in 2009 to the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau He said many Saudi women came to him for protection after being raped by the man they depended on. In that interview he said that The German asylum system was for these women a path to freedom.
From a certain point on, the distance he had taken from Islam became an open rejection of German immigration policy. Last November he posted a message on his X account with “four demands of the Saudi opposition“and said that Germany had to protect your borders from illegal migration.
He then accused Merkel of having had a plan to Islamize Europe with her open borders policy. In other social media messages he showed open sympathy for the AfD because he said it was the only party that fought Islam in Germany. Taleb A wanted to found an academy for ex-Muslims in Germany together with the AfD, according to “Der Spiegel”
Just a week ago, an interview of his was broadcast through an Islamophobic blog in the US in which he maintained that the German state had a secret operation to persecute ex-Saudi Muslims around the world and at the same time granted asylum to Syrian jihadists. In another message from X, later deleted, he announced revenge, according to the newspaper The world.
In recent weeks, according to the local newspaper Magdeburger Zeitung, Taleb A had missed work due to medical leave.
