Shooter’s Father Says ‘God Himself Will Punish ... Homosexuality’

[MariaThinks]

Source: CNN

The father of the Orlando shooter said early Monday that his son shouldn’t have killed patrons at the gay nightclub Pulse because God will punish them, The Washington Post reported. “God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality,” Seddique Mateen said in Dari, speaking in a video posted to Facebook early Monday, per the Post’s translation. “This, is not for the servants” [of God].

The elder Mateen said that he was “saddened” by the shooting, which left 50 dead and dozens injured, the Post noted. While he told media outlets earlier that his son, Omar Mateen, was enraged by seeing two men kissing recently and was not motivated by religion, he said in the video that he did not know what pushed his son into committing mass murder.

Seddique Mateen, aka Mir Mateen, has also raised eyebrows for previous videos. The Guardian reported that in one recent Facebook video, he appears to act the part of Afghanistan’s president, telling the “revolutionaries of Afghanistan” to overthrow their current government. On a Facebook page titled “Provisional Government of Afghanistan,” he wears military fatigues and, speaking in Dari, orders the arrest of several political figures, including Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.


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[Archae]

1. The only gripe the right-wingers will have, is that the shooter and his Dad are Muslims.

Otherwise they'll approve of the killings, already the WBC is cheering for the shootings.

[leftynyc]

14. Let me get this straight

You (and others) have absolutely zero problem with tagging ALL right wingers with the WBC but we suddenly get all pc and tongue tied when someone utters the words "Islamic extremism".

[EL34x4]

17. The WBC? Really?

By no stretch of the imagination is the Westboro Baptist Church even remotely representative of mainstream American Christianity.

[Archae]

21. By all credible information, the WBC is a scam.

They make inflammatory comments and such, try to get assaulted, then they sue.

Just about anyone even remotely connected to those who assaulted them.

[6chars]

25. Republicans I know are horrified

[louis-t]

2. Then let God do it...

asshole.

[3catwoman3]

28. Exactly! If the God they they believe in is as powerful as they claim, surely...

...he/she/it does not need so many self-appointed agents on the planet and would be quite capable of taking care of things without puny and misguided human assistance.

[brooklynite]

3. "...and I can't imagine why my son would do such a thing"?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. It just came right out of nowhere, didn't it? NT

[Ilsa]

27. If no one had been hurt or killed, I'd be

feeling sorry for Omar. His father believed that the nature of his son was worthy of punishment before he ever did anything criminal. It's a tragedy no one was able to intervene and help him before his anger and self-loathing took over.

[exboyfil]

5. He wants to be Afghanistan's President

I say we give him the opportunity to campaign face to face. Put him on the next government flight to Kabul.

[Warpy]

6. The full statement is on the BBC site

and the translation is a bit less inflammatory.

His dad looks absolutely destroyed.

[MariaThinks]

7. interesting subject of your sympathy. I look at the victim's family and i see sorrow beyond belief

not sure how anyone who supports the Taliban could have a heart.

[Warpy]

11. It's not a zero sum game, you know

nor is it a light switch mentality thing.

The assassin was 29 years old. His father's influence over him had likely ended some years ago. I see absolutely point in reviling the murderer's father.

And don't forget that a lot of people in Afghanistan supported the Taliban over the lawlessness of predatory warlords. Many still do.

[JudyM]

13. His father's influence ended years ago?

So what do you suppose his father's response was was the son expressed anger and revulsion to him about the men he saw kissing? Hello: the father is a grotesquely hate-filled homophobe. If you don't call it influence, what do you call sharing a hatred so vehement that they bond over it?

[Lucky Luciano]

9. But he said god should punish gays.

People who say such things are collectively complicit for the murders that occur due to this hate.

[Warpy]

10. Not really

There is a world of difference between "should" and "will." He's not ordering god around, in other words. Remember, being Muslim doesn't confer sole ownership of religious homophobia. There is plenty of it to go around to most religions, especially the desert ones.

He also said punishing sin is not for human beings to do.

Mostly he looks like a parent who's just had his guts ripped out and is trying to cope with what just happened.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Splitting hairs for homophobes.

nt

[Behind the Aegis]

19. Lots of that going on!

[David__77]

8. Deleted.

[RogerM]

15. BS family

Charity begins at home or in Matten's case radicalization begins at home.

[IronLionZion]

16. Let's leave the judgment and punishment up to God OK?

And humans can just mind their own business.

[bluestateguy]

18. Well then fuck him if that's how he feels. Deport him.

We have enough homophobe natural born citizens, we shouldn't be taking immigrants who espouse such crap.

[MariaThinks]

20. That's too logical. At least we're not like the Brits who are actually paying welfare

to Imams that are asking for the destruction of Great Britain.

[6chars]

26. investigate him

you think he isn't involved in more? he is lying now, and is probably still covering up for his terrorist son.

[Astraea]

22. If there is a god

and he doesn't punish twisted, sick, hateful fucks like this, it's not a god I want to believe in. I don't know how these people can look themselves in the mirror every day.

[MariaThinks]

24. exactly.

They are disgusting perversions of what a human should be.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

23. Deport him