What the establishment media wants us to believe about any given event is usually more indicative of the media’s own world view than it is of the actual facts on the ground, and the vehicular attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday is no exception. In fact, the media spin is even more pernicious than usual on this one.
The claim that’s going around is that the attacker, a Saudi doctor named Taleb al-Abdulmohsen who has lived in Germany for years, is an ex-Muslim who hated Islam and was enraged at German authorities for letting so many Muslims into the country. The Washington Post reported that Abdulmohsen “had expressed anti-Islam views and described himself as a Saudi dissident.” The Wall Street Journal said that he was “a well-known anti-Islam activist who seems to have felt increasingly persecuted by Germany.” The New…
