The Take: San Diego’s Muslims, a mosque, and a city shaken
After a deadly shooting, San Diego’s Muslim community mourns, supports one another, and searches for healing.
![Women hug as they wait for the children to walk out of the mosque, at a collecting area, at the scene of a shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego, California, U.S., May 18, 2026. [Mike Blake/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-05-19T164851Z_851870795_RC2YBLATQAAV_RTRMADP_3_CALIFORNIA-SHOOTING-1779463718.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
After a deadly shooting, San Diego’s Muslim community mourns, supports one another, and searches for healing.
![Women hug as they wait for the children to walk out of the mosque, at a collecting area, at the scene of a shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego, California, U.S., May 18, 2026. [Mike Blake/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-05-19T164851Z_851870795_RC2YBLATQAAV_RTRMADP_3_CALIFORNIA-SHOOTING-1779463718.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)







Tributes have poured in for the guard, who was among the three people killed in the shooting at the San Diego mosque.

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Authorities said the attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Police have responded to a shooting at a mosque in California, with officials saying the threat had been ‘neutralised’.
‘We are considering this a hate crime until it’s not,’ San Diego police chief says, adding that both shooters are dead.
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