How San Diego is Responding After Mosque Shooting

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Two teenage gunmen killed three people, and later themselves, in an attack Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the city’s largest mosque. Authorities are investigating the shooting as a hate crime, and it comes as anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise across the United States. We get the latest updates from the investigation, hear how San Diego’s Muslim community is responding and talk to experts about growing threats posed by rising Islamophobia. Guests: Tazheen Nizam, executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego Andrew Dyer, reporter covering extremism, the military and veterans affairs, KPBS Maha Elgenaidi, executive director, Intercultural Networks Group Raqib Naik, executive director, Center for the Study of Organized Hate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.5	The Islamic Center of San Diego holds prayers five times a day.
0:39.7	It has a grocery store, sports facilities, and a primary school. But on Monday, it was the site of a deadly mass shooting.
0:48.2	Nine-year-old, O'Day Shana told Reuters he heard gunfire and hid in a closet with his classmates
0:53.6	until authorities
0:54.8	escorted them out of the mosque.
0:57.0	And then we saw a bunch of bad stuff, people laying down and, yeah, bad stuff.
1:01.5	I felt a bit scared. My legs were shaking in my hands.
1:06.8	And my head was like hurting me a lot. I felt like a rock.
1:12.8	Three men were killed, trying to protect the center and its children from two teenage gunmen,
1:18.5	leaving a community stunned and grieving.
1:21.3	Joining me first is Tazin Nizam, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, San Diego.
1:27.8	Tazin, thank you so much for coming on and talking with us today.
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