What kind of hatred motivated the teenage San Diego mosque shooters, who killed three men and died in a murder-suicide before capture? Well, take your pick.
According to the 75-page unfinished manifesto left behind by Caleb Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, the pair hated Muslims, Jews, blacks, legal migrants, illegal migrants, Latinos, Asians, industrial society, gays, trans people, Donald Trump, “MAGAtard boomers,” liberals, conservatives, moderates, and women.
Oh boy, did they hate women. “After the Jew the most evil creature in this world is the woman,” wrote Vazquez, in his contribution to the two-part document. He identifies himself as a short man on the autism spectrum. This, he believed, is why women ignored him.
“Being short, especially now more than ever, is nothing short [of] a torturous humiliation ritual. As someone who’s been short my whole life, trust me, I know from experience and they’ve never let me forget it.”
“When a girl is shy or introverted it’s cute, but I, as a guy, for being the exact same, am seen as weird and awkward,” he continued. “When a girl is autistic it is seen as quirky, but I, being an autist as a guy, am treated like a retard.”
— Rod Dreher in What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed
If the shooters hadn’t disparaged right‑wingers and had praised Trump, we’d be hearing about this every day from now until the 2028 election. It really is that simple.
It looks like the security guard who was killed and the shooters both praised Hitler and expressed hatred for a particular Semitic group.
But before any of this came out, we immediately heard the word “Islamophobia” being tossed around. Why didn’t those same people use the word “Christianphobia” right after recent Christian school and church shootings? Hmm… It’s almost like they’re only interested in pushing narratives.