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More than \u200b2,000 people gathered in a San Diego park on Thursday to mourn a security guard and two other \u200cmen murdered as they tried to stop this week’s attack on the city\u2019s largest mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men and women, including police officers in uniform, stood in rows for the Islamic funeral prayer, or Janazah, to remember the three men referred to as heroes by mourners for delaying and distracting the attackers, preventing further \u200bbloodshed at a time when children were at the mosque’s school.

The bodies of the men, Amin Abdullah, 51, Mansour \u200bKaziha, 78, and Nadir Awad, 57, lay beneath cloths and rugs, underneath a white canopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God is the \u2060greatest,” the mourners chanted in Arabic, raising their hands at the service in a park wedged between the city’s river and \u200ba soccer stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three men were set to be buried alongside one another later in the day at a nearby cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today is \u200ba message to everyone. Our community got hurt but our community is standing strong and firm,” said the center’s imam, Taha Hassane, adding that people had travelled from the eastern United States and across California for the service.

The FBI is investigating the attack as a suspected hate crime and the killings \u200bhave put Muslims across the United States on edge at a time of rising Islamophobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mourner Ruba Abu Jamah, who knew all \u200bthree men, called for an end to the hatred of Muslims that she believed inspired the attackers. She questioned why the mother of one of \u200cthe \u2060teenage suspects, who alerted police that her son was suicidal, allegedly allowed him to have access to guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For God’s sake, why are we going backwards? Hate takes us backwards,” said Abu Jamah, after hearses took the men’s bodies for burial. “Moms, don’t have a whole display of weapons if you know your 16-year-old kid is depressed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdullah was shot dead in a\u00a0gun battle<\/a>\u00a0with the teenage assailants during which \u200bhe used his radio to \u200bcall in a lockdown procedure, \u2060police said.

Kaziha, the center’s handyman and cook, as well as Awad, whose wife is a teacher at the center and who lived across the street from the mosque, were shot dead by the \u200battackers after they heard gunfire and ran towards the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdullah\u2019s actions are credited with delaying the \u200bassailants’ entry to \u2060the center, where 140 students hid in closets<\/a> and other spaces, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assailants fled the mosque in their vehicle and were later found dead in the car from self-inflicted gunshots, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khaled Abdullah, 24, the security guard’s son, said his family has drawn strength from the \u2060way his \u200bfather died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that he was on the front line, trying to defend \u200bkids and innocent people, that makes me feel good,\u201d Khaled told Reuters on Wednesday. \u201cCalling him a hero is the least we can do.”

Reprinted from Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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