[Craving even more FPM content? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more. Click here to sign up.]
Ahmad A. is a Saudi who now lives in Germany, apparently having previously convinced the authorities that he faced a credible threat of “persecution” in his home country. He left Saudi Arabia at the age of 15 — how much of a threat could he have posed that would have caused the Saudi state to persecute him? He was almost certainly making up that claim in order to be admitted to Germany. Or such a fear of persecution might have been real if he had a male relative who was known to support the Muslim Brotherhood, that the Saudi royal family regard as a permanent challenge to their rule. One wonders if the immigration authorities understood any of this. In any case, now he is in Germany, where, despite his Islamic views, he works as a “psychologist.” He’s just been in the news for praising a friend of his who carried out the suicide bombing at a Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany on December 20, 2024, and for saying to an interviewer that “it’s a shame more people didn’t die.” More on Ahmad A. can be found here: “‘It’s a shame more people didn’t die’: Here, Islamist Ahmad A. celebrates the Magdeburg attack!,” translated “„Schade, dass nicht mehr Menschen gestorben sind“: Hier feiert der Islamist Ahmad A. den Magdeburg-Anschlag!,” Nius, July 17, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
In the middle of a conversation with an MDR television crew, Ahmad A. laughs into the microphone – and speaks with frightening coldness about the terrorist attack on December 20, 2024, in Magdeburg. Six people were killed and over 300 injured in the attack on the Christmas market. A.’s comment: “It’s a shame more people didn’t die.” Bild previously reported on the unbelievable interview.
A. continues: “This was an act of revenge for personal reasons. Anyone to whom the same thing had happened would take revenge in the same way. What he did was a simple, normal act, quite simple,” said the 24-year-old, who is from Mecca and came to Germany in 2016. According to him, the attack was incomplete. It would be better to kill more people so that the pain would equal the pain he experienced, I experienced, every Saudi refugee here experienced.”
No one forced Ahmad A. to come to Germany. He refers to the psychic “pain” that his friend the suicide bomber suffered living in Germany, the same pain that Ahmad A. has experienced. The attack at Magdeburg’s Christmas Market was “unfinished,” he says, because it did not inflict enough pain on Germans, and they — the Germans — need to suffer precisely the same degree of pain that he, and the suicide bomber, Taleb Abdulmohsen, and every other Saudi now living in Germany experiences.
The footage is from an interview with the MDR program “Exakt.” Ahmad A., a suspected radicalized Islamist, expressed his approval of the attack carried out by his acquaintance Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen. The 50-year-old from Saudi Arabia drove a car into the crowd at the Christmas market. For Ahmad A., this is apparently no cause for sadness. On the contrary: What his acquaintance did was “completely okay,” he says.
He explains to the reporting team that the perpetrator “felt persecuted – by the authorities, by society.” Apparently, this is justification enough for him. Ahmad A., also from Saudi Arabia, rails against German authorities in an interview, speaks of an alleged war against the Saudis, and even announces his own revenge – because of his rejected asylum application. Ahmad A., the Islamist interviewed, appeared in data records belonging to Tarek Al-Abdulmohsen, which he had leaked to numerous journalists.
So Ahmad A. hates the Germans, but he wants to live among them for the rest of his life, and because his asylum application was turned down, he would be prepared to commit the same kind of murderous act as Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen. Why doesn’t he simply leave Germany, and go to a place where he will be better treated? There are 22 Muslim Arab states. Aren’t there at least a few that would be happy to take him in? The Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait all come swimmingly to mind. But he doesn’t want to leave Germany, not out of any attachment to the country, or affection for its people, but solely out of his desire to batten on every benefit the generous welfare state provides. Such benefits include free or greatly subsided housing, free medical care, free education and vocational training, family allowances, and more. And those benefits apparently outweigh the psychic distress he feels living among German Infidels who don’t make him feel at home.
Ahmad A. was known to the police and was registered in Erfurt. He worked as a psychologist. But when the MDR team informed the authorities after the interview, he had already disappeared—in hiding since the day of the conversation. The MDR investigation also reveals that 561 people are currently known to be dangerous individuals nationwide—and even the federal states disagree on who actually qualifies as such.
Do you think Ahmad A. is dangerous? He praised a friend who was a suicide bomber, killing six people and injuring 300 when he blew himself up at a Christmas Market in Magdeburg. Instead of any expression of sorrow over the mass murder, Ahmad praised Talib Abdulmohsen, the bomber, and wished only to express his disappointment that there had not been more victims. He sounds like a potential terrorist to me.
