I’m trying to figure out this distinction between an Islamist, a Jihadist, and an non-jihadist Islamist that murders people.
Sure seems to be a distinction without a difference.
A 26-year-old Palestinian man who killed one and injured seven in a stabbing spree on July 28 in the German city Hamburg was known to intelligence services, police said a day later.
Police had investigated the man, who was born in the United Arab Emirates and who had his asylum application denied. They concluded he was “an Islamist and was recorded as such in the appropriate systems, not as a jihadist but as an Islamist,” according to a statement made by Hamburg Interior Minister Andy Grote.
The man stabbed people in a supermarket on Friday afternoon. He was overwhelmed by bystanders and arrested shortly after he ran into the street to continue his rampage.