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SUMMARY:United in Grief: Remembering Victims of the San Diego Attacks
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nPlease 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. \nWe will be gathering as a community in the MCC Prayer Hall to share prayers\, reflections\, and thoughts. Everyone welcome! \nThis 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. \n4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. | Friday\, May 22\, 2026 | MCC Prayer Hall | Join us in person or watch virtually at mcceastbay.org/live \nPlease park in the Pleasanton Unified School District parking lot. \nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \nWe 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. \nOur 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. \n\nFor more details\, see here: https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=ec8fb6b0691fe4b0c85850477&id=cd6ad5bd22 \nIf you feel concerned about how best to share information with your children\, please reference the link below for some talking points and considerations to keep in mind: https://www.parentmap.com/article/how-talk-kid-school-shooting\n\n \n\nOn 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. \nThe 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. \nAmin 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. \n \nNader 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. \n \nAbul 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. \n \nTo God we belong\, and to God we return. \nWe 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. \n\n\n\nThe Prophet ﷺ said: \n\n\n\n“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.” \n\n\n\nNarrated by Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCommunity Security Safety Message \nThis is a Time for Prayer\, Unity\, and Vigilance.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAssalamu Alaikum\, Beloved MCC Community\,Like many of you\, we are heartbroken by today’s attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD). Three members of our wider ummah were killed in a place that should have been a religious sanctuary\, including a security guard whose actions\, by all accounts\, saved many more lives. \nInna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. Indeed\, we belong to Allah\, and indeed to Him we return. \nOur prayers are with the victims\, their families\, and the entire San Diego Muslim community. At MCC\, we are implementing additional safety measures and working with the Pleasanton Police Department\, which is providing support. In the coming days\, we will ask for your cooperation\, even when it may be inconvenient.To help ensure the safety of our congregation\, we have arranged for armed security personnel to be present during our weekly Friday prayers and our upcoming Eid prayers. We will review and\, where needed\, adjust our security and operational procedures so that our beloved masjid remains a place where you and your families feel safe to pray\, learn\, and gather.We ask our community members to remain especially vigilant\, park only in designated areas\, stay alert\, and immediately report any suspicious activity to mcc-listens@mcceastbay.org.Also\, this Friday\, May 22\, alongside our interfaith allies & local city officials\, we will hold a community vigil in the MCC parking lot right after our last Jumu’ah service ends\, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. We will have banners for everyone to sign and for our kids to draw messages of support from us that we will send to the San Diego Muslim community. More details in this Thursday’s newsletter.For those in the community experiencing grief\, anxiety\, or emotional distress in the wake of this tragedy\, our community mental health partner Maristan offers professional\, faith-centered counseling & support for children\, teens & adults.May Allah protect our mosques and communities.In Service\,MCC Board of Directorsmcc-listens@mcceastbay.org \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nShoulder to Shoulder Campaign Statement on the Deadly Shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShoulder to Shoulder Campaign\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs 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. \nThis 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. \nAs 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. \nWe 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.” \nWe 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.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/united-in-grief/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
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