Video: CAIR Deputy Director on CNN to Discuss Role of Anti-Muslim Hate in San Diego Mosque Shooting
Video: CAIR-SFBA Director Zahra Billoo Responds to Deadly Shooting Targeting San Diego Mosque
Video: CAIR-SFBA Director on Al Jazeera Says Elected Officials Fuel Muslim Hate, Lead to Mosque Shooting
Video: CAIR-Philadelphia Director Responds to Deadly Attack on San Diego Mosque
CAIR: ‘Heroic’ security guard killed protecting children and staff in San Diego mosque shooting – NBC
Abdullah was one of three people killed at the Islamic Center of San Diego, according to the mosque and a fundraiser launched by the San Diego branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His identity was confirmed by the mosque and CAIR, but he has not yet been named by authorities.
“He didn’t run. He stood his ground,” CAIR San Diego’s fundraiser said. “In plain words: Amin put himself between the gunmen and everyone inside.”
CAIR: Slain mosque security guard had warned teachers to lock doors, imam says – Washington Post
CAIR: Fundraiser hits $1.5M for dead security guard after San Diego shooting rampage – The Mirror
CAIR: Security guard, Amin Abdullah, hailed as hero in deadly San Diego mosque shooting – BBC
CAIR: Police were searching for teens behind San Diego mosque shooting before the bloodshed began – Associated Press
CAIR: San Diego Mosque Attack Comes Amid Rising Reports of Islamophobia – New York Times
The Council on American-Islamic Relations received 8,683 civil rights complaints in 2025, the most the group has recorded since 1996, according to its most recent report.
“Government actions and official rhetoric treated Muslims — and people who speak up for Palestinian human rights — as suspicious and outside the circle of protected religious and civic life,” the council wrote in the 2025 report.
CAIR condemns attack at Islamic Center of San Diego – USA Today
CAIR: What We Know About the Shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego – TIME
“No one should ever fear for their safety while attending prayers or studying at an elementary school,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement. The group condemned what it called a “horrifying act of violence.”
CAIR: San Diego Police Respond to Active Shooter at Islamic Center, Threat ‘Neutralized’ – People
CAIR: 3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More – Democracy Now
CAIR: Police are treating deadly shooting at San Diego mosque as hate crime – HuffPost
CAIR: 5 people, including 2 suspected shooters, killed at San Diego Islamic Center: Officials – Anadolu Agency
CAIR: 5 dead, including teen gunmen, at San Diego Islamic Center; hate motive probed – Los Angeles Times
CAIR: Police say threat at Islamic Center of San Diego has been neutralized – The San Diego Union-Tribune
CAIR: 5 dead after San Diego police respond to active shooter at Islamic center – Newsweek
CAIR: San Diego mosque shooting: What we know about the victims and the attackers – Al Jazeera
CAIR-Ohio condemns San Diego mosque attack that killed 3 – Columbus Dispatch
CAIR-AL: Moore pushes to require religious worker visa seekers to disavow Sharia law – Alabama Political Reporter
During an interview on Friday, Britton O’Shields, staff attorney for the Alabama Council on American-Islamic Relations, expressed concerns that the legislation asks Muslims to denounce their beliefs in order to enter the U.S.
O’Shields emphasized that, rather than a literal governmental or legal theory, Sharia is a code of ethics that guides how Muslims live their daily lives within their faith and is more akin to religious codes of ethical conduct observed in Christianity and Judaism.
Western definitions of Sharia law, however, commonly associate the term with the contemporary legal interpretation and application of Sharia in the judicial systems of Islamic countries, a separate practice known as Fiqh.
“Putting additional measures in place, limiting their ability to follow Sharia is duplicative and doesn’t really accomplish anything new,” O’Shields said. “Additionally, I just don’t know any Muslims who are looking to establish Sharia law as the law of the land.”
“I’ve never heard, one time, somebody talking about instituting Sharia law over the law of the United States or, you know, instead of the Constitution,” she added of her interactions with Alabama’s Muslim communities.