This essay examines the ideological motive attributed to Abdul Ballout after the attack on Berlin Pride. By Paul CliteurOn Saturday evening, 25 July 2026, at around 10 p.m., Abdul Ballout drove a rented van into pedestrians near Tiergarten Park, a few hundred metres from the closing Pride celebration at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. What drove Abdul Ballout to attack Berlin Pride? For Abdul Ballout, Pride is one long parade of blasphemy. When theoterrorism is committed by someone holding Islamist or jihadist beliefs, it may be called “Islamist theoterrorism”.