San Diego Muslim leader’s wife quits USD job amid furor over ‘horrific’ image on Facebook

November 2, 2023   

(Times of San Diego) The wife of a San Diego Muslim leader has quit her teaching job at the University of San Diego amid outrage over a “horrific” image she purportedly posted to her Facebook account.

Lallia Allali, whose husband is Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego, also has lost her contributor roles with the San Diego Union-Tribune. But she retains a chairmanship of a San Diego Unified panel.

The offending image, spotted last weekend, shows a Jewish Star of David beheading five babies, with the caption: “The devil is killing.” The cartoonlike drawing has been circulating online since at least October 18 in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

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