L’attacco di Magdeburgo offre all’AfD un terreno fertile nonostante il sostegno del sospettato al partito

Pro immigrants and refugees but anti Islam = far right now

He had a site that literally talked about how to apply for refugee status and immigrate to European countries, he also had exploits and welfare scheme guides, but we are supposed to take him as someone who is far right.

Edit : For better context, Imagine if a gypsy voted for the NDSAP because he hated Jews, neither the NDSAP nor Jews would be fond of him

As we know, critical self reflection is not a typical charateristic of an average AfD voter.

The guy who shot Trump was a Registered Republican, but that still helped Trump to further his agenda and win the Presidency, so I doubt AfD voters or people who are thinking about voting for AfD because they’re not happy with the other options are going to pay too much attention to who the Magdeburg attacker backed, as opposed to his cultural and religious background and how AfD spin this narrative to support their agenda.

That’s because he wasn’t backing the party, do your research BBC. It’s not that hard.

Basically that is exactly what he wanted. The AfD can spin this in a way that Arabic (and therefore Muslim) immigrants are dangerous and should not be allowed to enter Germany or Europe, supporting his anti-islam views.

I entered comment section under czech news articles about this gentleman and of course, most people there claiming he was in fact islamist. Either people completely ignored what has been written in the article (not like the article itself did a great job at explaining it either), or they assumed it was all a cover up for his true beliefs.

You know what else gives a fertile ground for AfD – common sense…

This is what the attacker anticipated and its goal.

His actions are inconsistent with backing AfD and hating Islam. Running people over in a Christmas market is an attack on Christians and on traditional German values. If he had done it in front of a Mosque, this reaction wouldn’t exist or it would be from Muslims. This guy is not good in his head and his own words are self-contradictory, but he’s not “aktchually far-right”.

No matter his association, the attack is another complete failure of government organizations (again). 

This is where the afd thrives. Existing parties (both current and previous government) failed to do any reforms so they are the obvious target for disillusionment of the (ruling) political landscape. Not that the afd would realistically improve anything, quite the opposite, but they provide an easy outlet to associate with for anti establishment voters. The fact that small parties are less viable to vote for due to the 5% limit doesn’t help either.