an Islamophobe who received asylum in Germany and now rejects immigration

The doctor Taleb Al Abdulmohsenborn 50 years ago in Saudi Arabia, is the author of this Friday’s mass attack in the Magdeburg market (a city located in eastern Germany) in which five people have died and more than 200 have been injured. His profile is proving to be quite an enigma for the German authorities: he is a person who abandoned the Muslim faith and little by little became radicalized until he defended openly Islamophobic positions that were very close to the German extreme right.

Abdulmohsen has been arrested for the multiple car accident at the Magdeburg Christmas market and has tested positive for drugs. The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeserhas indicated to the press that Abdulmohsen was an Islamophobic person, according to Reuters.

“It is very clear,” the minister insisted in her statements to the media, although she did not want to go into the political affiliations of the arrested person (several German media outlets are linking Taleb Al Abdulmohsen with the far-right party Alternative for Germany -AfD-).

In August 2023 Abdulmohsen wrote on his social networks that “If Germany wants war they will have it. If they want to kill us, we are going to massacre them”.

In his messages from that time in X you can read: “A purely philosophical question, would you blame me if I killed 20 Germans indiscriminately because Germany was taking measures against the Saudi opposition?”

Apparently he deleted the post himself. However, the Bot „Thread Reader App has archived the message, which is why the German media were able to reproduce it.

Abdulmohsen threatened the German people on his networks and also attacked the Prosecutor’s Office and the judges for ignoring his complaints about how Saudi spies were trying to prevent humanitarian aid efforts for opposition exiles.

The life of Dr. Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, as shown in media such as the magazine Der Spiegel 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 AfD and theories about an alleged plan to Islamize Europe, forged according to him by former chancellor Angela Merkel.

Abdulmohsen arrived in Germany in 2006 as a student and received asylum in July 2016. after being threatened with death for having turned 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 she also pointed out that the German asylum system was for these women a path to freedom, according to Efe.

In another interview granted in 2019 to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FACE) He described himself as an anti-Islam activist..

“People like me, who have a past linked to Islam but who are no longer believers, encounter the lack of understanding and intolerance of Muslims here,” he said then. “I am the most critical person in history with Islam. If you don’t believe me, ask the Arabs,” he told the newspaper FAZ.

From a certain moment his distancing from Islam became an open rejection of German immigration policy. Last November he published a message on his X account with “four demands from the Saudi opposition” and said that Germany had to protect its borders from illegal migration.

He accused Merkel of having orchestrated 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 the digital edition of Der Spiegel.

Just a week ago an interview of his was broadcast through an Islamophobic blog in the US in which claimed 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, which he later deleted, he announced revenge, according to the newspaper Die Welt.

In recent weeks, according to the local newspaper Magdeburger ZeitungTaleb A had missed work due to medical leave.