{"id":29291,"date":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/was-the-magdeburg-market-attack-the-inevitable-product-of-an-anti-politics-age-kenan-malik\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:07:06","slug":"was-the-magdeburg-market-attack-the-inevitable-product-of-an-anti-politics-age-kenan-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/was-the-magdeburg-market-attack-the-inevitable-product-of-an-anti-politics-age-kenan-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age? | Kenan Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of faith in political leaders is leading the socially disaffected to be seduced by violence<\/p>\n<p>Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the horror attack on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/21\/magdeburg-mourns-christmas-market-dead\">Christmas market in Magdeburg<\/a>, does not, Germany\u2019s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, observed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/22\/germany-christmas-market-attack-magdeburg-taleb-al-abdulmohsen-charges\">fit any existing mould<\/a>\u201d. He had acted in \u201can unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an Islamist terrorist, though he was clearly ideologically hostile to Islam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Faeser is not alone in her confusion about how to understand Abdulmohsen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at <a href=\"mailto:observer.letters@observer.co.uk\">observer.letters@observer.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/29\/magdeburg-market-attack-product-anti-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of faith in political leaders is leading the socially disaffected to be seduced by violence Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the horror attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, does not, Germany\u2019s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, observed, \u201cfit any existing mould\u201d. He had acted in \u201can unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an &#8230; <a title=\"Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age? | Kenan Malik\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/was-the-magdeburg-market-attack-the-inevitable-product-of-an-anti-politics-age-kenan-malik\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age? | Kenan Malik\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}