The two suspects in a shooting at a mosque in San Diego who killed three people praised other religious-inspired shootings in an alleged manifesto, as well as spewing hatred toward Jews, Islam, and women.
Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, are reportedly the two suspects who charged into the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday and opened fire, killing a security guard and two other members of the mosque. The incident has been labeled as a hate crime.
Law enforcement officials on Tuesday said the teenagers had met online before meeting in person prior to committing the attack. Officials said the two were radicalized on social media.
An FBI official confirmed the manifesto’s existence, saying that it detailed broad hatred for many groups. An independent journalist leaked the excerpts of the alleged manifesto, which was then separately reported on by the California Post, which credited Clark as the writer.
The alleged manifesto said the suspects were planning to “cause as much death and destruction to the system and the invaders as efficiently and quickly with a diverse (lol) selection of targets.”
CBS also reported that the alleged manifesto glorified other mass shootings.
The manifesto cited the 2019 New Zealand Christchurch mosque shooter as the inspiration for livestreaming the attack, which they hoped would encourage others to carry out similar deadly attacks, according to the California Post.
It referred to the gunman in New Zealand as “Saint Terrant,” a name used for the shooter by extremist accelerationist groups.
Here is a breakdown of what the manifesto said:
Abhorrence of Islam, Jews, and other races
While the attack was carried out on a mosque, the manifesto shows Muslims were not subject to Clark’s hatred, but rather the religion of Islam as a whole.
“The religion of Islam is in every way incompatible and hostile to western countries,” the alleged manifesto read. “It is completely contradictory to both Western morals and values and Christianity which has dictated many of our societies whether you agree with it or not.”
The alleged manifesto said that Muslim people, once they enter the United States, will “assert dominance and lay claim to the land by loudly and obnoxiously praying in our streets, demanding Sharia law, only voting for their own in positions of power, being violent as any s***skin and attacking others often in the name of Islam.”
“I also recognize that while no race is equal to ours, among the closest that comes to it is the Middle Easterns,” Clark said, adding that Middle Eastern people are knowledgeable in the areas of warfare and government. “For this they can get my respect, at least enough to not want to bomb the ever living s*** out of their countries, a sentiment that my own government does not share due to working on behalf of a foreign nation state,” it added, referring to U.S.-Israel relations.
The largest section detailed a deep hatred for the Jewish people, blaming them for “all wrong in the world.”
“There is no moderate option on this problem, they’ll always rise back to power or do the same again wherever you exile them to, for any sane man seeing all this the only logical solution would be to just kill them all,” Clark said.
The alleged manifesto also went into detail about black people, referring to the race as having “significantly lower IQs than whites.” The claim about intelligence is justified by using reasoning similar to that of eugenics, which is essentially scientific racism that determines intelligence by skull size.
South Americans were also noted as an issue for the manifesto’s author, specifically for the “invasion” of America through immigration. Hatred for immigrants was written throughout the document.
LGBT stance and hatred of women
The suspected shooters were not transgender or in a romantic relationship, despite rumors online labeling them as such.
Clark called homosexuals “foolish” and “stupid,” pointing to their inability to procreate. This section flips between outright hatred for gay people and saying that “normal gays,” which it says are “just attracted to the same gender without being weird about it,” are less hated.
Transgender people were discussed in the following section, calling the group “nothing short of completely deranged and mentally ill.”
Clark called for both gay and transgender people to “tie that noose and kick the chair.”
Clark’s alleged manifesto also noted that women are the second “most evil creature in this world,” after Jews. The section was titled “Foids and the Incel Experience,” using a derogatory term for women used by the online manosphere and referring to his experience as that of someone who is “involuntarily celibate.”
He blamed his experience with women on his height, saying that women only prefer the “magic six foot height.”
“As someone who’s been short my whole life trust me I know from experience … if you’re a man and you are below the magic six foot height, you’ll be treated as a lesser,” Clark allegedly said.
Opposed to the MAGA movement
President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement was also mentioned in the document.
The author identified themselves as someone with “various views over the years of Libertarian, Conservatism, and basic moderate right Nationalistic views.” They added that the right wing in America is a “complete and utter failure” and that conservatism is “dead.”
On Trump, the author said he is still viewed as “some sort of white savior as if it were still 2016,” adding the president was never “really our guy.”
“In the rare chance he was ever our guy it’s painfully obvious he isn’t now and hasn’t been for quite some time,” the manifesto said.
The manifesto went on to condemn the “left wing revolution” and at first encouraged the group to “kill” Trump, but said Vance would be a better target because Trump is “on his way out.”
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Media outlets were directly called out as well, specifically Fox News, with the manifesto saying Clark’s political affiliation will be spun “into some type of ‘radical leftist.’”
“YES I am inciting violence from the left, because as an accelerationist I know that it takes all sides opening fire to cause that much desired societal collapse,” Clark reportedly wrote.