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Islamists Keep Stabbing People. Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
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Islamists Keep Stabbing People. Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
Screen grab of the stabbing attack in Mannheim, Germany, May 31, 2024. (via X)
Many in the West seem resigned to violence that once shocked us.
By Peter Savodnik
06.06.24 — International
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Last week, a 25-year-old Afghan man went on a stabbing spree in a marketplace in Mannheim, in southwestern Germany, killing a police officer and wounding five other people.

In a video of the attack, the man, whose name has not been released, can be seen repeatedly stabbing several people—including the police officer, in the back of his head and neck—unti…

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Peter Savodnik

Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.

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