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Join us for an interfaith community vigil to honor the victims from Monday’s mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. We honor Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha, and Nadar Awad. 

Please join us in solidarity and support so that we can together meet the hate that took these three lives with the love needed to extinguish it. People of faith deserve to come together safely and without fear.

We will be gathering as a community in the MCC Prayer Hall to share prayers, reflections, and thoughts. Everyone welcome!

This tragedy has deeply shaken our hearts, but as a community rooted in faith, compassion, and unity, we must stand together for those who are grieving and hurting in our present circumstances. Our prayers matter. Our support for one another matters.

4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. | Friday, May 22, 2026 | MCC Prayer Hall | Join us in person or watch virtually at mcceastbay.org/live

Please park in the Pleasanton Unified School District parking lot.

Questions? events@mcceastbay.org

We are gathering to mourn the victims of the horrific terror attack on Muslim worshipers in San Diego. Worshipers were gunned down on Monday, May 18, 2026.

Our prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the victims. We come together and show our solidarity and express our grief over such a senseless act of violence. We will show that together we are stronger than hate, that no matter what faith community we belong to, we oppose hatred and violence in all forms.

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VIGIL PROGRAM

Introduction & Welcome 

• Shahed Latif & Seema Badar

Quranic Recitation

• Qari Amar Bellaha

Quranic Translation 

• Kashef Qaadri

State Senator 

• Aisha Wahab

Cornerstone Fellowship Pastor/Livermore School Board Member

• Christiaan Vandenheuval

Dublin Mayor 

• Sherry Hu

CAIR-SFBA Representative

• Musa Tariq

Pastor Lynnewood Methodist Church

• Rev. Jennifer Murdock

Social Justice Chair Lynnewood Methodist Church

• Jan Villott

Tayba Foundation Teacher

• Ustadh Muhammad Amin Anderson

San Ramon Vice Mayor Reflection

• Marisol Rubio

Dublin City Council Member

• Mike McCorriston

Dublin Superintendent 

• Matt Campbell

MCC East Bay Youth

• Mueez Munir

Islamic Center of Livermore Youths

• Redha Jaweed, Iftar Maaz, Musa Sarwar

Community Dua and Closing

• Ustadh Muhammad Amin Anderson

On Monday, May 18, 2026, three men were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego — the largest mosque in San Diego County, attached to a school where dozens of children were in class. Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

The three men killed were not strangers to one another, and they were not strangers to the hundreds of families who walk through the doors of that center every week. They were the people who made it run.

Amin Abdullah was the security guard. He was a father of eight. When two gunmen opened fire outside the building, Amin stood his ground — and the San Diego Police Chief publicly credited him with “playing a pivotal role in keeping this from being much worse.” Teachers, staff, and more than a dozen children walked safely out of that building that afternoon because of what Amin did. He paid for that with his life.

Nader Awad was a community member and neighbor of the center, and lived just across the street. When he heard the gunfire, he ran toward it, toward his wife and the community that was his entire life. He did not make it back across that street.

Abul Ezz (Mansour Kaziha) worked in the center’s food store and was part of the daily rhythm of the masjid — one of the people who kept the community fed, welcomed, and at home in their own house of worship.

To God we belong, and to God we return.

We pray that the deceased are in the highest levels of paradise. We ask God to envelope the loved ones left behind with His mercy and comfort in this time of extreme difficulty. The Muslim community is in grief and pain.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“The example of the believers in their mutual love, mercy, and compassion is like one body: when one part of the body suffers, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever.”

Narrated by Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

As a national multifaith coalition, the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign unequivocally condemns the tragic, deadly violence committed at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and joins the greater San Diego community in solidarity and prayers for safety and healing.

This shooting targeting San Diego’s largest mosque comes in the wake of heightened anti-Muslim rhetoric, including from elected officials. In recent months, politicians and public voices have stoked fear and spread misinformation about American Muslims, often casting them in dehumanizing ways and even claiming they do not belong in the country. When this kind of hateful rhetoric is normalized, it lays the groundwork for violence and places entire communities at risk. While details are still emerging about the San Diego shooting, three Muslim community members have been killed and authorities are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.

As people of faith, we affirm that every person possesses inherent dignity and we reject language which dehumanizes anyone — whether it is used to fuel violence here at home or to justify war abroad. Here in the U.S., where religious freedom and freedom of conscience are founding ideals, everyone deserves to worship and go to school safely, no matter their faith or cultural background. No one should fear violence when they walk into their place of prayer or learning.

We pray that this tragedy awakens the conscience of those who have perpetuated and condoned the harmful and dehumanizing narratives about Muslims that have become so prevalent. As members of our coalition declared in a prayerful appeal to leaders on Capitol Hill this spring, “The promise of equality, freedom, liberty, dignity, justice in America is not just for some, but for all… We reject the scapegoating of our Muslims neighbors and we call on our elected leaders, fellow faith leaders, and all people of goodwill to stand shoulder to shoulder.”

We mourn with the community of the Islamic Center of San Diego and Muslim communities who are feeling this impact just days before Eid-al-Adha. As people of faith working to address hate among us and build more pluralistic communities, we commit to holding our standard of dignity, respect, and fairness for all of us, no exceptions. We call upon all people of faith and goodwill to interrupt harmful and dehumanizing narratives whenever we encounter it among us.

Eden Area Interfaith Council Statement on San Diego Mosque shootings and Vigil to support our Muslim brethren Friday

Dear friends,