If you thought sheltering a known terrorist was a good decision for atheist ideological reasons, while having contempt for human trafficking law, you're part of the problem
You have provided zero evidence for the claim that the German government was driven by "atheist ideology".
Our societies in the West value religious and personal freedom, so if a girl faces the death penalty in SA because of apostasy or because she wants to divorce her husband, it would be ridiculous to treat the guy who helped smuggle her out of harms way a terrorist or to prosecute him for human trafficking.
Now, the big question obviously is if the Saudis also pressed charges against the guy which were legitimate and didn't originate exclusively from their medieval sharia laws, laws which we don't share (yet...). I could even imagine that they had flooded the German authorities with charges against him to smear/discredit him, to the point that the German side began ignoring anything the Saudis told them about him. Which then became a deadly mistake once the dude started going completely off the rails.
I wonder how much of this has to do with the government being simply unable to keep up with the number of such complains or not having enough to action and actually do something. They've literally let in hundreds of thousands of potential perps. If this guy didn't commit a crime, can they simply arrest him based on some schizo tweets? Lets say those private citizen complaints did make it to some counter-terrorism unit, again what are they arresting and charging him with? Do they keep permanent surveillance on him since they don't have enough to arrest or what?
Not asking this to absolve the gov't obviously they fucked up, but at the same time when Germany has let in millions of Muslims from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, from plenty of terrorist hot spots, it becomes a herculean task to prevent shit like this IMO.
This is 100% a big part of the issue. German security services had to admit years ago, I think it was in 2017 or 18, that they don't come even close to having the required manpower to stake out all the islamist high-risk individuals they know of.
But like I've said before: this case right here is even more complicated than that since the perp had already been in the country since 2006 and, at least at one point, was competent and stable enough to get a job as a psychatrist in a state-run facility. So by the looks of it, this was not a deranged wacko since the beginning, it was someone who once checked all the boxes of a well-integrated migrant and then, years later, began radicalizing and going insane.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 22 2024 01:49am