{"id":89,"date":"2026-05-26T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemovechronicle.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:08:55","slug":"the-san-diego-mosque-killers-werent-just-islamophobic-they-had-another-terrifying-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homemovechronicle.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"The San Diego Mosque Killers Weren\u2019t Just Islamophobic. They Had Another Terrifying Motive."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The two young men who attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people and terrorizing an entire community, were overflowing with hate. The manifesto they left behind teems with bigotry; there are sections for Muslims and Black people, South Americans and LGBTQ+ people (although they use different terms), the political left and the right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey didn\u2019t discriminate on who they hated,\u201d Mark Remer, the FBI special agent in charge, told reporters last week. \u201cIt covered a wide aspect of races and religions.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that the manifesto covers many different races and religions. But the men zeroed in on two groups with particular rage: Jews and women.<\/p>\n

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This may seem odd, given that the men attacked a mosque. And make no mistake, despite the men claiming in their manifesto that they didn\u2019t hate Muslims, they were clear that they do hate Islam and they hate Muslim immigrants. And they were happy to slaughter them if it meant accelerating the white Christian war on everyone else. It\u2019s notable, though, that the men characterized Muslims primarily as \u201cbioweapons\u201d of Jews (although the men used a slur in place of \u201cJews\u201d). The central idea of the manifesto is one that will sound familiar to anyone who has even loosely read up on Great Replacement theory: White Westerners are being replaced with Black and brown outsiders in a nefarious plot to destroy Western civilization, and Jews are the all-powerful evildoers behind this plot.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one aspect of Great Replacement theory\u2014and of general reactionary right-wing violence\u2014that rarely gets the attention it deserves: These men believe women are at fault, too.<\/p>\n

More than a decade ago, the word \u201cincel\u201d came into the popular lexicon via murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people and wounded 14 others in Isla Vista, California, all because he was homicidally angry at women he faulted for rejecting him. Since then, the relationship between misogyny and mass violence has been well documented, and it\u2019s rare to find a mass shooter who didn\u2019t have a history of domestic violence or woman-hating posts online. The San Diego shooters recognize several of them, referring to them as \u201csaints.\u201d But misogyny is also so pervasive\u2014and extreme, overt misogyny now so mainstreamed on the right\u2014that it\u2019s increasingly going unremarked-upon or being downplayed, even when it\u2019s central to mass murder.<\/p>\n

This has certainly been the case with the San Diego mosque killings. The shooters hated a lot of different kinds of people, and if the manifesto is any indication, they were not exactly among the country\u2019s top intellectual talent (on the Freemasons: \u201cthere is certainly something going on there\u201d; on the Muslims: they are \u201cdemanding Shaira law\u201d). But they also present a clear hierarchy of hate, one that assigns certain groups agency and responsibility while deeming others simply passively inadequate. Immigrants, Black people, Latinos, Muslims, transgender people, gay people\u2014in the killers\u2019 telling, these groups are all deficient or even repellent in their own unique ways, but they aren\u2019t evil, scheming, or nefarious. The evil, scheming, nefarious ones are the Jews\u2014the forces behind mass immigration, transgender identity, political instability, and the attacks on white culture and Western civilization.<\/p>\n

But, inside this deranged rubric, the Jews have some help.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Jew, the most evil creature in the world is the woman,\u201d the manifesto says. \u201cThis is because after Jews, women tend to cause all the problems in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It is hard not to see the irony in some of their complaints. \u201cA woman if ever at all will barely think with logic rather making decisions based almost entirely off of feelings and emotions,\u201d the manifesto reads. That\u2019s quite a take from a man who, furious at Jews and women, decided the best course of action was to kill three men at a mosque. The litany of complaints continues, though, and reading between the lines, it\u2019s clear the root of the men\u2019s fury is rejection. But rather than engaging in any self-reflection over why women might pass on a pair of men who hated them and who would conduct a mass shooting, the men conclude it\u2019s indicative of women being \u201call evil, self centered, entitled, egotistical whores.\u201d<\/p>\n

That mass shooters trying to start a race war tend to be megalomaniacal morons is not exactly breaking news. But the misogyny running through their ideology has barely been news at all.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the journalist Helen Lewis published a cover story in the Atlantic with the subheading: \u201cA virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right.\u201d From the conservative preachers whose arguments that women shouldn\u2019t vote are shared by men at the highest levels of the Trump administration to a president who snaps \u201cQuiet, piggy\u201d at female reporters and to popular far-right figures who fantasize about \u201cbreeding gulags,\u201d extreme misogyny is now so pervasive even on the mainstream right that it barely registers. Men who think women shouldn\u2019t have jobs or the right to vote hold important positions at conservative think tanks; the idea that feminism destroyed the family and forced women into the workforce\u2014and that it would be best if women stayed at home with many children\u2014is omnipresent even in moderate conservative circles. Women are core to the popular right-wing concept of \u201csuicidal empathy\u201d because, as Lewis puts it, \u201cWomen pity the underdog, pander to self-proclaimed victims, and care about hurt feelings more than the truth\u2014all of which are exploited by undocumented immigrants and violent criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, as the mosque shooters say, the feminine urge to put emotion over logic, which results in voting based on \u201csome sob story\u201d and eventually \u201cthe bringing in of millions of poor poor innocent little brown immigrants\u201d who, the shooters say, will go on to rape them.<\/p>\n

This specter of brown men attacking white women has been repeatedly invoked by Donald Trump and his allies to justify harsh immigration policies. Feminism and the \u201cfeminization\u201d of American culture and its impacts\u2014on men\u2019s dating and marital prospects, on the American family, on immigration rates, on education, on male workforce participation\u2014are now standard fodder across the conservative ideological spectrum. It\u2019s not just misogyny that has been mainstreamed on the right. The idea that \u201cheritage Americans,\u201d or people whose families have long lineages in the U.S., are somehow more American than the rest of us is a view propagated by Vice President J.D. Vance; the MAGA movement has long been debating just how much antisemitism it should tolerate, and in which flavors. Many of the ideas in the shooters\u2019 manifesto have shown up in various college Republicans\u2019 group chats.<\/p>\n

Twelve years ago, misogynist ideologies of men wreaking mass violence were highly newsworthy. Now, they seem to merit little more than a nod. This compacting of the bigoted extreme right into the mainstream should be a moment of reckoning. Instead, it seems what has happened is that we\u2019ve all just gotten used to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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