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Untruth or not, this is about adding fear to the general public whilst allowing this murderer to recieve some sort of status.

The sort of people who are perpetrating these acts are just criminals with mental health issues. In the Berlin case, the murderer was already a criminal before deciding to aggrandize his crimes as ‘serving a greater purpose’. There are plenty of lone people with mental illness and the sort of person who is/was willing and capable of perpetrating horrible acts is the sort of person that would of done it anyway, but the ISIS thing gives them something to hang on, they can feel supported if they align themselves with a terrorist organization and we, the public, reassure the perpetrator that he will be remembered as a terrorist and not just a murderer.