(Adnkronos) – The two teenagers considered responsible for the attack on the San Diego mosque, during which they killed three people before committing suicide, were inspired by a neo-Nazi, racist, and misogynistic ideology. Nbcnews reports this, stating that investigators found a 75-page document believed to have been written by Caleb Vazquez and Cain Clarck, the two 19 and 17-year-old boys who had met online.
The document, which experts are analyzing for authentication, is steeped in hatred towards Muslims, Jews, African Americans, Hispanics, the LGBT community, and women. Furthermore, there are references to Nazi iconography and accelerationism, a supremacist ideology that encourages violent actions to accelerate the creation of a “white ethnic state,” and to incel ideology, the subculture that transforms involuntary celibacy into misogyny.
The American broadcaster, which analyzed the document, reveals that it expresses admiration for Adolf Hitler and for those responsible for other massacres, starting with those in 2019 against the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during which Brenton Harrison Tarrant, an Australian with ties to neo-fascist circles, killed 51 people, live-streaming the shooting.
“They did not discriminate among the people to hate; their hatred covered a wide range of races and religions,” said Mark Remily, the FBI special agent leading the San Diego investigation. The document “also illustrates a general misanthropy and immersion in a nihilistic, extremist, and violent online ecosystem,” is the analysis conducted by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Remily explained that they are still trying to determine how the two teenagers were radicalized: “I believe this shows how low the barrier to entry is; I believe it is unfortunately clear evidence of how easy it is for this DIY domestic terrorism to become a reality.”
