This fact will, however, not deter those who will dismiss this act as yet another case of the mental illness that has somehow become rampant among Muslim migrants to Europe.
“‘Every soul will die’: Stuttgart sword murderer posted Islamic creed before the act,” translated from “‘Jede Seele wird sterben’: Stuttgarter Schwertmörder postete vor Tat islamisches Glaubensbekenntnis,” Journalisten Watch, August 5, 2019:
What role did Islam play in the Stuttgart machete murder? Shortly before his madness, the killer Issa Mohammed posted on Facebook a statement of pious allegiance in Arabic. A few hours later, he barbarously slaughtered his former roommate, Wilhelm L., in front of the latter’s daughter – on the street. So far, a “purely private motive” has always been reported.
Several German newspapers and online portals since Thursday in their coverage of the alleged Jordanian Palestinian Issa Mohammed emphasize that the 28-year-old acted “for personal reasons” (“Spiegel Online”) or acted on private grounds. Mohammed had arrived in Germany as an alleged “Syrian refugee” in 2015, and on Wednesday, in the residential district Fasanenhof south of the city of Stuttgart, in the middle of a busy residential area, brutally dismembered a German-Kazakh known to him.
Yesterday screenshots of Muhammad’s Facebook account surfaced on the Internet, which at least left no doubt in a disturbing way to the killer’s fidelity to Allah. “In the name of Allah the Merciful – Every soul will die,” he wrote, and under it, “Belief in Almighty Allah.”
To what extent this post provides information about his mental or psychological state at the time of the crime, whether Muhammad possibly acted out of a religious motivation or at least was in a trance, will still have to be clarified.
The post seems like a self-proclaiming manifesto and at least – along with the chosen mode of killing and the frightening routine that the offender followed – cast doubt on the fact that it was a mere act of a relationship. The choice of words is more reminiscent of an Islamist letter of confession. The entry reveals in any case once again that for devout Muslims, raw violence and Islam are unfortunately not a contradiction. (DM)