New: Alleged Manifesto in San Diego Mosque Mass Shooting Throws Wrench in Early Assumptions About Motives

 Details on the shooters writings against Muslims, Jews, Blacks, and Trump/Vance.

Sister Toldjah – RedState

"According to the manifesto, the attackers behind the San Diego Islamic Center attack scoped out multiple “diverse targets” and were leaving it to fate if they could hit more than one location. For the people asking, “If they hated Jews, why attack an Islamic Center?” because just like the KKK, they hated BOTH Muslims and Jews." 

 "The Post additionally reported that Vazquez left behind a 75-page manifesto.

“I am a straight male. I am certainly not left wing, nor am I right wing — especially not with MAGA or Trump. Politically, I’d call myself a Third Positionist, specifically aligning most with National Socialism and eco-fascism, though any form of Third Positionism,” Vasquez wrote in the manifesto, according to outlet.

“Let me preface this by saying I don’t hate Muslims, at least not really,” he wrote. “What I do hate is the religion of Islam itself and what I hate more than that is seeing them here, invading my country.”

"As RedState reported, there was a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, just before noon Pacific time.  

"Three people were killed, including a security guard at the mosque named Amin Abdullah, who reportedly "played a pivotal role" in saving lives.

"The two teenagers who San Diego police say opened fire have been identified as 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Liam Vazquez (earlier reports that had his last name listed as Velasquez were incorrect). They reportedly became friends online, where they were radicalized. Both were found dead a few blocks away in a car with what investigators believe were self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

"Early on, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters without going into too much detail that "There was definitely hate rhetoric involved" in the shootings. 

"On Tuesday, however, some of the pages from the alleged manifesto of the shooters were shared in an X thread by San Diego activist Amy Reichert, and it disrupted some of the narratives that have been spouted by The Usual Suspects about how the gunmen must have been extremist right-wing pro-Trump/Vance MAGAs who were motivated by a hatred of Muslims (language warning):  . . ."

Al Jazeera

"The two teenage gunmen who fired shots at a San Diego Islamic center purportedly livestreamed the sinister event.

"The video, seen by the New York Post, appears to show Cain Clark, a 17-year-old homeschooled wrestler, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, storming the mosque as they opened fire.

"In one particularly disturbing scene, the pair can be seen standing over a pool of blood and a body before they get back into their BMW, the Post reports.

The teenage suspects killed three people outside the San Diego mosque on Monday.

San Diego mosque shooters met online, FBI says | AP News  . . . "The pair “didn’t discriminate on who they hated,” Mark Remily, the lead FBI agent in San Diego, said Tuesday.

"The writings, obtained by The Associated Press, include hateful rhetoric toward Jewish people, Muslims and Islam, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women, and both the political left and right. Both express beliefs that white people are being eliminated, and one writes about mental health struggles and being rejected by women." . . .

Tragedy in San Diego Must Not Become a Tool for Islamization › American Greatness. . . "But we cannot allow this horrible incident to be used to strengthen the Islamization of America. This attack took place in California, which is already well on its way to becoming an official Islamic state; we cannot let this heinous crime be used to further that pathway. The dead must be mourned, but we must not let them become martyrs." . . .

Zohran Mamdani lectures successful people on wealth creation with all the confidence of a man who has never created any.

 Imagine a Better World: More Rich People and Fewer Mamdanis | The American Spectator  

"Someday, we will talk about how the Democrats’ true superpower is breaking things — cities, institutions, even entire countries."

Sky News Australia

"If you want to wreck things in a spectacularly absurd way, just put Zohran Mamdani in charge. He has now launched a campaign against the rich that essentially treats them as suspects in every imaginable crime simply for being wealthy. His attacks on Ken Griffin are a good example. The CEO of Citadel is a billionaire whose professional achievements are recognized worldwide. What can we say about Mamdani? He’s a politician. Nothing more. Even in his only known line of work, he devoted himself entirely to politics until he realized he could dedicate himself fully to politics without working at all. He has never earned a cent on his own, nor created jobs for anyone outside politics — which is itself a rather parasitic way of providing employment. Today, he is simply a mayor who should never have become one. Perhaps someone should remind him that he is not Napoleon or anything of the sort. I’m afraid he is in no position to lecture Griffin about much of anything. (RELATED: Billionaires to California’s Rescue)   

"Last week, I was highly critical here of the newly rich who become idiots, as if burdened by guilt, turning into half-woke, half-green caricatures. But my criticism has nothing to do with the mayor’s. Mamdani wants wealth itself to become suspect; suspect of corruption. He wants us to hate the rich. And he wants to patch the holes created by his own mismanagement by taking money from millionaires. In other words, he wants to force the rich to finance his incompetence. That is the exact opposite of what one expects from one of the most important cities in the world, a city that ought to stand as an example of freedom and prosperity rather than an economic black hole where the people who have achieved the most in life are forced to bankroll the festivities of the dumbest kind of political parasitism. 

"As a Spaniard, one of the things I most admire about the United States is its culture of meritocracy. That is how great, prosperous, and free nations are built. Meritocracy means that if you work hard, are intelligent, have a bit of luck, and make the most of your talents, you will attain a far more comfortable position in life while also helping to make the world a better place and improving the lives and opportunities of many others. Only a fool would try to crush those elites who have earned their wealth through hard work. A fool… or Mamdani." . . .

. . . "I find it difficult to take Mamdani seriously. His style of politics embodies everything I detest. I suspect he is the least qualified person imaginable for the office he holds. It is like Wile E. Coyote trying to teach the Road Runner a lesson in road safety." . . .

A Republican Can Be California’s Next Governor If Republicans Turn Out

 Robin M. Itzler - American Thinker 

"Should only one or neither Republican candidate make it to the general election, anger and disgust should be directed at the lazy 65 percent of Republicans who probably complain the loudest but don’t bother to vote."

"The once Golden State has a jungle primary, meaning the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party. As in the 2024 Senate race, Democrat party leaders are determined to repeat their primary strategy to set up a general election between a Democrat and a Republican.

"In the 2024 senatorial primary, then-Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Katie Porter held the one-two spot for a long time. But the last thing Democrats wanted was for Schiff and Porter to win the jungle primary and advance to the general election, where the two Democrats would spend months and dollars attacking each other.

"The Schiff campaign started ignoring Porter and began attacking Republican candidate Steve Garvey for his conservative positions. Garvey, a former Los Angeles Dodger, had name recognition but lacked money to advertise throughout the “yuuge” state. Schiff’s attacks introduced Garvey to the populace as the “conservative” candidate.

"Suddenly, Republicans were learning more about Steve Garvey, and they liked what Schiff was telling them.

"Garvey moved up in the polls, and Porter moved down, finally out of contention. (Porter was very angry but did not throw hot mashed potatoes on Schiff’s head.)

"The 2024 senatorial general election was now Democrat Schiff versus Republican Garvy(sp). It was such a “close” race that most media outlets called it for Schiff minutes after the polls closed." . . .More...

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter.

Meanwhile in California...

  

From wildfires to foster care: California insurance crisis expands to agencies helping at-risk youth - California Political Review

"Once again the arrogance and stiff necked Slick refused to do the fire breaks and such authorized by the voters.

And he wants to run for President? LAUGH

Just think if the pressure on insurance companies had been lessened just on forest fires how great it would be for the insurance companies over all.

The Dems are out of control" Reader comment.

New Wildfire Scorches 700 Acres Near Simi Valley as L.A. Mayoral Race Heats Up   And so it begins.

The Sandy Fire’s eruption just two weeks before the June 2 mayoral primary is a clear sign that wildfire prevention and preparedness should be on forefront of any political discussion related to Southern California.

"The Ventura County Fire Department said the fire is still threatening structures, and evacuation orders and warnings remain in place.

"Approximately 500 firefighters are assigned to battle the blaze, and firefighting aircraft are continuing to douse flames with retardant and water to support crews on the ground." . . .

Supreme Court backs CA parents' right to be told about trans students  "The Supreme Court on March 2 backed parents’ right to be told if their child changes their name, or pronouns they’re using in school, blocking California rules aimed at preventing teachers from outing transgender students to their parents.

“Under long-established precedent, parents − not the State − have primary authority with respect to ‘the upbringing and education of children,'” the majority said in an unsigned opinion. “The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.”

"The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision to grant the parents’ emergency request." . . .

“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”

 Legal Insurrection  

"This is not the sort of sniping you’re used to seeing on the Supreme Court. I don’t think she’s going to be impeached. I disagree with you. There is no way she’s going to be impeached in my estimation. But she’s unfit for the court. I mean, she really is."

"Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been issuing increasingly vitriolic solo dissents directed at the majority on the Supreme Court. The issue is not so much her simplistic and ideologically driven substance, but that she insults her colleagues.

"We have covered multiple prior instances:

• Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”
• SCOTUS Grants Trump Another Stay, KBJ Issues Another Fiery Solo Dissent, Drawing Rebuke Even From Sotomayor
• KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

"Her most recent outburst came in the Louisiana redistricting case, where she lashed out after all the other Justices granted a request to expedite entry of judgment in light of the election calendar. She was so over the top that a rebuke was issued from Justice Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch. We covered it in Alito Obliterates Jackson’s Dissent: ‘Groundless and Utterly Irresponsible’." . . .

"I had a chance to discuss KBJ’s  tactics on the Tony Katz show (transcript excerpt, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity): . . ." More...

The San Diego mosques unsavory history and a demographic detail

Exclusive | San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vasquez encouraged Cain Clark to kill him after mass shooting  . . . "During the attack, both men were decked out in Nazi gear, including a Black Sun symbol, which is associated with Nazi Germany. Nazi SS commander Heinrich Himmler had the symbol inlaid into the floor of the Wewelsburg castle, which was built in the early 1600s.

"The two had hate speech written on their weapons, including the phrase “Race War Now.” The two also left behind a shocking, hate-fueled manifesto before the terrorist attack — which praised Adolf Hitler and a slew of mass murderers." . . .

JD Vance condemns ‘reprehensible’ San Diego shooting 

. . . “That type of violence in the United States of America is reprehensible, and I encourage every single American to pray for everybody who’s involved and affected by it,” he said.

“We don’t want that to happen in our country, and may God rest the souls of the people who lost their lives.”

This article below notwithstanding, there must be much more than "not condoning". We must condemn the shooting outright. TD

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  

In December 2023, Taher Herzallah of the Hamas-linked American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) spoke at the ICSD and told the congregation to make Zionists feel “very uncomfortable on campus.”

San Diego mosque shooters ID’d as Cain Clark & Caleb Velasquez

"Here are the bare bones of yesterday’s story: Two teens traveled to a well-known mosque in San Diego, shot three people to death, and then took their own lives. I’m sorry that they avoided justice before the law for what they did, and they certainly would have gotten it, given that in California, their target was a protected class. A civilized society cannot survive extremists engaging in targeted assassinations.

"Still, that’s not the focus of this post. Instead, I want to point out two interesting things that won’t be highlighted in media reports.

"First, this mosque was not a nice place in terms of traditional American norms. Amy Mek has been tracking the Islamic Center of San Diego for a long time and notes that it has an interesting history when it comes to its practices and parishioners (emphasis in original):

"I have long covered this mosque and am very familiar with its shocking, decades-long track record of terror ties (9/11 hijackers) and extremism.

🔺A 2005 investigation by the Center for Religious Freedom (Freedom House) identified the ICSD as one of only a handful of U.S. mosques found in possession of Saudi government-published “hate ideology” materials, extremist Wahhabi literature filled with calls for intolerance, hatred of non-Muslims, and jihad.

🔺A congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks revealed the FBI believed the San Diego mosque was responsible for laundering millions of dollars in cash from Saudi Arabia to the Al Barakat Trading Company and other businesses tied directly to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

🚨Two of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, regularly worshipped at the ICSD before they helped crash American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

Fellow worshippers assisted them in obtaining Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, purchasing a car, and securing local housing."

The pair even accessed funds wired from the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed through a personal bank account belonging to an ICSD administrator." . . .   More at the link above, and a demographic detail

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write ‘manifesto’ book

NY Post

"American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found.

"Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.

"Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said.

"The union also forked over more than $11,000 to two people who “fact-checked” and apparently took photos of the labor big for the tome — which was heralded by the publisher as a “manifesto for our time.”

"'Most AFT members pay dues in exchange for workplace representation, not to fund the union president’s literary pursuits,” said Maxford Nelsen, the Freedom Foundation’s director of research and government affairs.

"'However, AFT appears to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in members’ dues on top-tier consultants, lawyers, and agents to get WFFT published,” Nelson went on. “Indeed, the wide range of expenses borne by AFT suggests that Weingarten may not have contributed anything at all financially to the enterprise.”.  More...

 Exclusive | AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book

UPDATE: Teachers Paid for Randi Weingarten’s ‘Manifesto’ - Then She Took a Cut of the Royalties – RedState   

"Weingarten, who pulls down $469,442 a year from the AFT, more than most of the teachers she claims to champion will earn in a decade, waved the whole thing away.

"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children"- Albert Shanker 

. . . "The intent is defensive but also clarifying. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shanker became the public face of a newly muscular teachers’ labor movement, attacked for protecting mediocre teachers, resisting evaluations, and treating public schools like an employment system first and a learning system second. His retort refuses the sentimental premise that unions should function like child advocacy nonprofits. He’s insisting that collective bargaining is about power, not purity.

"The subtext is sharper: if the public wants children’s interests represented inside the machinery of education politics, it needs institutions with comparable leverage - parents organized at scale, student voices with formal standing, governance structures that don’t rely on labor peace as the primary metric of success. Until then, Shanker implies, expect unions to behave like unions." . . .

"They Scanned Titanic With New Technology — What They Found At 3800m Shocked The World."

Fascinating Titanic Wreck Discoveries  "The wreck of the White Star Liner reveals thousands of tragic artifacts, many of which tell us amazing stories about how the ship was built and lost. Today join Mike as he explores five of these remarkable items and how they can speak to the tragic night the ship sank with the loss of over 1,400 lives.

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 The HAUNTING New Scans From Titanic  Gripping narrative and sometimes technical, even as an engineering textbook.

"Titanic's debris field is a vast stretch of ocean floor simply covered in twisted metal - from tiny human objects like cups, saucers and chairs to massive pieces of machinery storeys tall. In 2022, ‪@Magellan-gg‬ completed a comprehensive scan of the Titanic wreck site and now their 3d scans are being released for the public to study and enjoy - in vROV pilot available on Steam or in video form, like here, for us to have a look at. Their visuals are currently up for an Emmy nomination. Today we'll take a look at Magellan's Titanic debris field scans to try to get a better understanding of what's down there - and what happened to Titanic as she broke up and sank!

They Scanned Titanic With New Technology — What They Found At 3800m Shocked The World "The Titanic did not go down the way we were told! For more than a century, the story has sounded clean—an iceberg, a slow sinking, and a ship slipping quietly beneath the freezing Atlantic. But nearly twelve thousand five hundred feet, about three thousand eight hundred meters below the surface, the wreck has been holding a very different truth. A new deep-sea scan has finally revealed what was missing, showing how the ship came apart, failures no one saw at the time, and the men who kept it alive as everything else was falling apart. Here is what the scan unveiled!"

Titanic Survivors: Who They Are, What Happened to Them After  "Most records show that 705 people survived the sinking of the Titanic—most of which were women and children. However, Encylopedia-Britannica.org, found and listed as many as 712 survivors in their own research and the numbers continue to be disputed." . . .

San Diego Islamic Center shooting: what to know

UPDATE: Temple Israel officials share interfaith message of support after San Diego mosque shooting "Hate and Racism in America has been weaponized by some ignorants. Hate and racism are at odd with American Freedom and Democracy. I should state that Islam and Muslims believe in Jesus Pbuh as a Messenger and a Prophet of God. Holy Quran has mentioned Prophet Jesus or Esa Ben Maryam or Masseh Pbuh more than 90 times. Muslims and Islam do know and respect Prophet Jesus Pbuh, his mother Maryam Pbuh, and Christianity."

Democrats will blame President Trump in three...two...one...  Cory Booker will flash his wide-eyed anger at that cue.

San Diego mosque shooters ID’d as Cain Clark & Caleb Velasquez

 Report: San Diego mosque shooting suspect's note revealed  "One of the San Diego mosque shooters left a hate-filled [self-murder] note 'about racial pride' before opening fire and killing three people, authorities say. 

"Cain Clark, 17, attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego alongside Caleb Vazquez, 18, around 11.40am on Monday, after apparently stealing guns and a car from his home. 

"Hours before the attack, Clark's mother reported to police that her son was [at risk of self-harm] and potentially armed with weapons, and officers were already searching for the teenager when he opened fire. 

"After killing three, the teenagers were found in a car near the mosque with self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Police said one of the weapons in their vehicle had 'hate speech' written on it, sources told the LA Times. 

"Sources told the outlet that when officers searched Clark's home around two miles from the mosque, they discovered a [self-murder] note 'writing about racial pride.' A gas canister emblazoned with a Nazi SS sticker on its side was seen next to the BMW X1, where the suspects were found dead, with a shotgun nearby." . . .  More... 

Exclusive | San Diego mosque shooters identified as Cain Clark and Caleb Velasquez  . . . "A shotgun and gas can with an “SS” sticker on the side were located at the scene where the gunmen’s bodies were discovered.

"The “SS” sticker appears to represent the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization led by Heinrich Himmler under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany.

"Police revealed that around 9:42 a.m., they had received a call of a runaway juvenile from a concerned mother.

"After speaking with the mom, police began to elevate the level of the threat the individual posed to the community." . . .

San Diego Islamic Center shooting: what to know    . . . "Other services offered at the center include youth groups, support groups, weddings and funeral services, as well as a specialty grocery on site.

"The center is located in San Diego’s Clairemont neighborhood, next to the busy Interstate 805, about 11 miles north of downtown.

"Law enforcement has not released the names of the victims, but described one as a security guard who took heroic actions during the attack." . . .

We now await videos from around the mosque in the future. TD

Biden’s Handlers’ Anti-Christian Bias Was Worse Than We Knew

 Stately McDaniel Manor  

"Considering the Democrat Party is supposedly the champion of women, one must understand every Democrat oppressed, victim group is subject to a sliding scale of political victimhood, and when they’re no longer politically useful, may be immediately deemed oppressors and/or abandoned."

Pictured: Joe Biden fervently made the case for Trump's assassination

"It’s generally known Joe Biden, while pretending to be a devout Catholic, was virulently anti-Christian.  Actually, that’s not quite fair.  Joe Biden had no real idea what he was, who he was or where he was at any given moment.  He, after all, was the man ambushed, shocked and herded by a staffer dressed as the Easter Bunny, not that Biden’s Handlers who wielded a phone and an autopen, gave a damn about Easter and its Godly origin.  As we’re now discovering, Biden’s Handler’s hostility to Christianity was seeded throughout the federal government, as a recent report—Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government–reveals.

From the executive summary: Key findings one through fourteen:

Key Finding 1: The Biden DOJ pursued aggressive prosecutions against non-violent, pro-life, Christian demonstrators under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act but responded less aggressively to violent attacks against pregnancy resource centers.  . . .

. . . Key Finding 14: The Biden Administration regulated and suppressed religious speech that it did not like and curtailed Christians’ ability to jointly worship and study the Bible.

. . . "In 2014 I wrote about the Obama Administration suing a group of nuns in Upholding and Defending the Constitution: Stepping On Nuns Edition.  Biden’s Handlers, many of them holdovers from the Obamites, continued to harass Christians at every opportunity.  It’s widely believed, with considerable justification, that Biden’s term was actually Obama’s third term." . . .

. . . "It’s generally known Joe Biden, while pretending to be a devout Catholic, was virulently anti-Christian.  Actually, that’s not quite fair.  Joe Biden had no real idea what he was, who he was or where he was at any given moment.  He, after all, was the man ambushed, shocked and herded by a staffer dressed as the Easter Bunny, not that Biden’s Handlers who wielded a phone and an autopen, gave a damn about Easter and its Godly origin.  As we’re now discovering, Biden’s Handler’s hostility to Christianity was seeded throughout the federal government, as a recent report—Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government–reveals."   Full article here.

UPDATED: The beginning of the end for Tehran

 Washington Examiner 

"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has also emphasized stronger support for the Iranian people instead of endless diplomacy with Tehran."

"The Middle East is once again standing on the edge of a dangerous turning point. Tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States are rising rapidly. Military threats are growing louder. Diplomacy appears frozen. Across Washington, policymakers are debating sanctions, airstrikes, and the possibility of another regional conflict.

"But amid all the noise, one reality is becoming impossible to ignore: the Iranian regime is weaker today than it has been in decades.

"For years, Tehran projected strength through fear, proxy militias, missile programs, and regional intimidation. Yet behind the slogans and military parades lies a regime facing enormous internal pressure. Iran’s economy continues to deteriorate under corruption, sanctions, inflation, and mismanagement. Young Iranians are leaving the country in massive numbers. Families struggle to survive while regime elites continue to enrich themselves.

RESTORING AMERICA: REGIME CHANGE IN TEHRAN IS THE ONLY PATH TO STABILITY

"Most importantly, millions of Iranians no longer fear the government the way they once did.

"The protests of recent years revealed something far bigger than isolated unrest. They exposed a society exhausted by repression, economic failure, and authoritarian rule. Women, students, workers, and ordinary citizens openly challenged a system once considered untouchable. Even after brutal crackdowns, the anger never disappeared. It simply went underground, waiting for another moment.

"That is why the current crisis matters far beyond mi"siles or nuclear negotiations. The greatest threat facing Tehran is no longer external pressure alone. It is internal exhaustion.

"For decades, Washington approached Iran through the same cycle: negotiations, temporary deals, sanctions, threats, and then more negotiations. Yet the regime survived every round because the world continued assuming the Islamic Republic was permanent.

"That assumption may now be collapsing." . . .More...

Iran’s 70-Day Internet Blackout Reveals A Regime That Still Fears Its Own People – Issues & Insights

A genuine oppressed raised fist; not a Greta Thunberg raised fist