The Christmas market killer 'is a closet jihadist and undercover Islamist', the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has claimed. Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, spoke at a mass rally outside the cathedral in Magdeburg yesterday, near where Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, smashed his rented SUV into crowd at the Christmas market on Friday.
Nine-year-old André Gleißner was killed and at least 235 people were injured in the horrifying rampage, dozens of whom are still in serious condition, according to authorities. Weidel embraced the conspiracy theory that the attacker had been a closet jihadist, describing the killing as 'a crime beyond the imagination of everyone here; a crime by an Islamist full of hatred against everything that makes us human, against us as people, against us as Germans, against us as Christians'. AfD figures and supporters have spread an unsubstantiated theory that Abdulmohsen was a covert Islamist who concealed his convictions under an ancient strand of doctrine called taqiyyah, which maintains that Muslims can hide their beliefs in non-Islamic societies. Police are still puzzling over why Abdulmohsen attacked the market, with the prosecutor indicating that the medic's grievance about how Germany was treating Saudi dissident asylum seekers could be a possible motive. Abdulmohsen - who was arrested beside the battered vehicle - has voiced anti-Islam views, anger at German immigration officials including former Chancellor Angela Merkel and support for far-right narratives on the 'Islamisation' of Europe. Weidel comments come as German magazine Spiegel revealed that Abdulmohsen left a will in his rental car, indicating that he expected to die during his rampage after repeatedly vowing he would die 'this year' on social medi
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