What you’ll likely never hear from most of the media about the San Diego Islamic Center

The San Diego Islamic Center, where a mass shooting event today left 5 people dead (including the 2 teenage gunman of self-inflicted gunshot wounds), has a very controversial history — including ties to the 9/11 Muslim terrorist hijackers, as well as an imam who defended the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

NY Post (h/t Nita) Three people, including a security guard, were killed when a pair of gunmen opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego Monday. The suspected shooters were later found dead by suicide in a BMW. The motive for the shooting was not immediately known. San Diego police said “the threat has been neutralized.”

Previously, the Islamic Center of San Diego made headlines for its connection to Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. Both hijackers reportedly prayed at the mosque and found an apartment nearby through advertisements at the mosque while taking flight lessons in the city.

More recently, Imam Taha Hassane has come under fire for his comments on the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

“This did not start last week or on October 7. This is the result of brutal Zionist occupation and genocide,” Hassane said in a video posted to social media days after the savage Hamas attack. “Resistance is justified when people are under occupation and don’t let them change that narrative.”

Hassane’s wife and daughter have also been under fire for inflammatory rhetoric.

“Selma Hassane has promoted incitement, spread hatred of Israel, engaged in anti-Israel activism and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, according to watchdog group, Canary Mission.

In 2017, Hassane promoted the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In 2013, Hassane was an activist with the San Diego chapter of the anti-Israel organization Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

His wife, Lallia Allali, allegedly posted graphic images of a “Jewish star murdering babies with ‘the devil is killing’” scrawl in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, according to watchdog group StopAntisemitism.

Selma Hassane is the daughter of Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), a mosque reportedly “best known as the home to two 9/11 hijackers.”

Iman Hassane justified [00:23:05] Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror massacre of Israelis and spreadanti-Semitism at ICSD days after Hamas attacked Israel.

The group accused Allali of leading the Palestinian Youth Movement, “an entity tied to the anti Israel protests occurring all over the U.S. these past few weeks.”

Neighbors told The Post that there was tension between the mosque and the local community — which includes a nearby Hebrew language charter school.

The relationship between the school and mosque “grew uncomfortable,” said the mom, adding that Imam Hassane transformed from “very moderate and friendly” to angry and radical. One parent said “problems” have sprung up in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, when the mosque called the police claiming vandalism when the K-8 school hung hostage posters across the street.

“Hassane was supposed to bridge all the communities, but quickly became a hostile figure,” journalist and local mom Stella Escobedo said.

The Islamic Center of San Diego’s alleged ties to Islamic terrorists has made it a target of threats for many years.

& here is the San Diego Islamic Center spiritual leader & Islamic terrorism apologist & irrational Jew hater Shaykh Abdeljalil Mezgouri celebrating the October 7 2023 murder, rape & kidnapping of Jews. #IslamIsRadical. pic.twitter.com/87XdKBLfk5

— stephensacks (@stephensacks) May 19, 2026