Document Links California Mosque Attack to Far-Right Ideology

Evidence tied to last week's attack on a California mosque includes a 75-page typewritten document and a livestreamed video attributed to the two teenage suspects. The materials show grounding in far-right and neo-Nazi thinking. One section of the document states that women are the number-two enemy after Jewish people.

It uses a dehumanizing term for women that has circulated in some online communities.

Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said the explicit misogyny marks a shift from patterns observed 10 to 15 years ago. Alex DiBranco, executive director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, compared the anti-women statements to longstanding antisemitic conspiracy theories within the same ideological framework.

DiBranco noted that the suspect's document begins with Jewish people as the primary target before moving to women. She said the language follows patterns seen in prior neo-Nazi writings that link feminism to broader societal decline.

DiBranco cited the 2011 Norway attack in which the perpetrator killed 77 people and left writings blaming feminism for a supposed Muslim invasion. Elliot Chandler, CFO at Revontulet, described similar views of femininity as sources of cultural degeneracy.

Matthew Kriner, executive director of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism, said the video and document follow the format used in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks. The materials were uploaded to an online forum that shares graphic content of violence.

The attack occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Some social media posts claimed the incident was staged, but investigators have not supported those assertions.