The two shooters at the San Diego mosque expressed Nazi ideology in their manifesto. But the hideous irony is that one of their victims also endorsed Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate Jews.
While condemning targeted and deadly violence, we also have an obligation to recognize when victims of violence are guilty of supporting terrorism and ethnic or religious genocide. That is the case in the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting. Before Nazified teenagers Cain Clark and Caleb Vasquez murdered Amin Abdullah and two others at the mosque, Amin had enthusiastically expressed empathy with the "Final Solution." He also made multiple other aggressively antisemitic and pro-jihad posts. The horrible irony is that as Amin supported religious-based murder, he died by it.
Friendly fire? One of the three deceased Muslims killed at the terror-linked Islamic Center of San Diego praised Adolph Hitler for killing Jews. Amin Abdullah is being celebrated by the media and Muslims on social media.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 19, 2026
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I already reported on the facts that the mosque hosted a vigil for the Oct. 7 terrorists in 2023 and that the Islamic Center's Imam Taha received the “2011 Community Leadership & Social Justice Advocacy Award” from CAIR San Diego. A federal judge officially recognized the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) ties to Hamas years ago, and Florida and Texas have designated CAIR a foreign terrorist organization. After the shooting, according to ABC10 San Diego, CAIR issued a statement: "Amin Abdullah was the security guard who risked his own life to alert the school and other individuals inside regarding the active shooter. He is the definition of a hero who bravely made the ultimate sacrifice to save others over himself." I am not denying that Amin died protecting others. But just as CAIR is a gilded front for jihadi operations, Amin was not always a peace-loving pillar of his community at large.
The Post Millennial's Andy Ngo uncovered a post and reactions that expose Amin's disturbingly violent, Hitler-inspired antisemitic views. The original post from Amir Abu Abbas, another member of the Islamic Center, said, "Do you now understand, why I did what I did!?" next to an image of Adolf Hitler's face. Hitler is of course most infamous for overseeing the extermination of six million Jews, a Holocaust from which the global Jewish population has not yet recovered to this day.
Abu Ahyan commented on the Facebook post, "Look up the translation for some of his speeches. Those yahudis [Jews] were degenerating the society n [sic] he wasn't having it." Amir Abu Abbas responded enthusiastically, "I've read lots of stuff about him Ahki he was on the right course of action." Amin Abdullah gave his friend a thumbs up and agreed, "FO SHO!"
Nor was that a one-off moment of insanity. Scrolling through Amin's Facebook profile quickly turns up antisemitic content, with one post from April 27 where he reacted to a video about supporting Israel by ranting about Jews — and Christians, apparently — “Hell Fire is waiting for them." Islamic sacred texts endorse the massacre of Jews.
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On March 7, Amin shared a video of himself shooting a bow and arrow while describing it as Ramadan Ibadah or “worship.” In fact, almost the entirety of his posts on his infrequently used account are photos or videos of himself practicing archery while framing it as a way of serving Allah. He repeatedly both last year and this year referred to archery practice as "Sunnah" or following the example of the Prophet Muhammad, who is supposed to have been a successful military leader spreading his religion and political influence by the sword and bow. Amin also declared that Allah "allow[s] us to love what he loves and hate what he hates".
Ironically, Amin and his killers totally agreed on hating Jews. Vasquez and Clark raved:
The Jews across all of time have been behind an EXTREMELY disproportionate amount of the world's problems, whether that be from war, famine, exploitation of children, rise in degeneracy, infighting of peoples, political killings, the separation of family, the departure from the Church, the White race's replacement, mass immigration, central banking systems, and so on, it has always been and always will be, the Jews. There is no moderate option to this problem, they'll always rise back to power or do the same again wherever you exile them to, for any sane man seeing all this the only logical solution would be to just kill them all.
As Hitler tried to do, of course. The Islamic Center shooting truly was "friendly fire" from two neo-Nazis to another.
