Merkur: Attack in Solingen not directly controlled by IS – perpetrator may have seen instructional video
"A video has also surfaced showing a masked man claiming allegiance to IS. It is possible that this is the 26-year-old Syrian who is said to have carried out the attack in Solingen. However, there is much to suggest that he was not directly controlled by IS. "My theory is that he radicalised himself and had little to no direct connection to IS beforehand. He only sent the video to the terrorist organisation shortly before the attack," says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project in an interview with this editorial team."
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.