Mourners were outraged after father Seddique Mateen said that gunman Omar Mateen carried a “grudge in his heart” against gay people.
Seddique said: “I don’t know what has caused him to shoot, and I don’t know and I did not understand that he holds grudge in his heart that went to a homosexual night club of boys and girls and shot fifty people with gun.
“My son, Omar Mateen was a very good son and an educated son. He had one kid, and a wife, and he was so dignified which means he had respect to his parents.”
“I am very upset and I have announced it to the American people as well. Why he has done it in the holy month of Ramadan.”
In his controversial statement, he said that people should not punish gay people.
At the end of his statement, he called for “death to Pakistan”.
His bizarre statement came as Seddique Mateen declared himself the president of Afghanistan on his Facebook page.
The dad of Orlando nightclub killer Omar Mateen has also been revealed as a Taliban sympathiser who made a TV show ranting about the USA.
The Afghan-national has said he "runs" the war-torn country from his Florida home and once declared the Taliban his "war brothers".
Other episodes of his "Durand Jirga Show" are littered with "anti-US tirades", according to AP.
Just hours before his son opened fire, the dad posted a rant calling for the arrest of leaders in his homeland.
Dressed in military fatigues, the self-styled politician barks: “I order the national army, national police and intelligence department to immediately imprison Karzai, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad, Atmar, and Sayyaf.
“They are against our countrymen and against our homeland.”
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