San Diego Mosque Attack: Hate Crime or Anti-Muslim Rhetoric? #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Three people were killed in a suspected terror attack at San Diego's biggest mosque on Monday. The two teenage suspects were found dead nearby with self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Both are said to be Nazi sympathizers and the FBI is treating it as a hate crime. Many have been quick to draw a direct line between this attack and rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in public life.

[00:00:18]Republicans in Congress held a meeting on Sharia law just days earlier.

[00:00:22]Congressman Andy Ogles recently said that Muslims don't belong in American society while Congressman Randy Fine said he prefers dogs. And the case for the defense was not helped this week by Laura Loomer, a confident of the US president, who posted that people who go to the mosque want everyone killed.

[00:00:39]Well, joining me now is Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zaytuna. Mehdi, welcome back to Uncensored.

[00:00:45]>> Thanks for having me, Piers. I wish it wasn't under these circumstances.

[00:00:47]>> Yeah, well, me too. It's been a lot of debate, obviously, about uh anti-Jewish rhetoric and the impact of that and incidents awful incidents in the UK and other places about that. Uh here we have uh an attack which appears to have been motivated by a hatred of Muslims and Islam.

[00:01:11]Do you think it's getting the attention it would get had it been an attack on Jews, for example?