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5 Things You Need to Know About the Father of Orlando Jihadist Omar Mateen

John Bickley

Hours after his son went into a gay nightclub in Orlando and murdered dozens and injured dozens more, Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique Mir Mateen, insisted that the heinous act “had nothing to do with religion.” But new evidence that has emerged about the elder Mateen’s Muslim ideology and radical political views suggests otherwise.

Here are five things we’ve learned about the Orlando jihadist’s father.

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