This essay, on the contemporary character of terrorism, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 29 December 2024, under the headline “Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age?” Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the horror attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, does not, Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, observed, “fit any existing mould”. He had acted in “an unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an Islamist terrorist, though he was clearly ideologically hostile […]

Categories: Atheism & Religion, International, War on terror • Tags: afd, anti-politics, christmas market, end of history, francis fukuyama, if we burn, immigration, islam, low-tech terrorism, magdeburg terror attack, muslims, nancy faeser, nihilistic terror, olivier roy, radicalisation, taleb al-abdulmohsen, terrorism, vincent bevins