Interesting combination of things.

Just like Latinos in the US, he doesn’t get it that as far as the racists are concerned he is not white and never will be.

Kudos for leaving a fundamentalist “faith”, but it hasn’t helped his critical thinking any.

I think this really needs to be emphasized here. This is what happens when you turn up the right-wing rhetoric. Right now, people seem to be blaming immigrants (because he was an immigrant) and we really should not go down that road, generally. Hateful right-wing ideology is WHY these things happen. He was radicalized by the right-wing.

He is a right wing populist too.

I'm sure that most Islamic immigrants aren't extremists. This Islamophobia is spread by Trump on Truth Social and particularly Musk on X. Musk's anti-immigrant posts recently triggered widespread Far Right rioting in the UK while he gleefully posted that this was leading to a civil war. They want to tear society apart, pitting one side against the other, no matter whether the Other side is Islamic, POC, LatinX, LGBTQ, etc, etc.

Who knows what craziness drove him to do this, but what he probably has in common with others on the Far Right is a certain level of manic-depression.

The suspect had built up a following on social media as the self-described "greatest critic of Islam in Saudi Arabia." He was critical of the German government for not providing more protection for secular Arab immigrants and made increasingly dark threats: