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Seddique Mateen

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The Resume

    Seddique Mir Mateen
    Owner of the non-profit company, Durand Jirga, Inc.
    Host of the Durand Jirga Show on the satellite television network Payam-e-Afghan
    Father of nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, who terrorized the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida
    Son left 50 people dead and 53 people injured before being subdued and killed by police (Jun. 12, 2016)
    Came under fire for making several public statements absolving his son of guilt in the wake of the tragedy

Why he might be annoying:

    He is an ideological loyalist to the Afghani Taliban.
    He was the main source of his son's anti-American views and vitriolic anti-Gay bigotry.
    He was abusive towards his son; physically assaulting him in front of witnesses at least once (he was fifteen at the time).
    He made some innocuous statement about his son's shooting spree had nothing to do with religion? (of course it did...)
    He willfully ignored his son's behavior as a child, claiming his son 'does nothing wrong,' even as his teachers insisted was 'out of control.'
    His denial about young Omar got to be so bad that one of his elementary school teachers referred to Seddique as 'a pig' in an interview, further saying 'he always felt like he was the victim.'
    He posted weird (frequently incoherent) videos of himself acting as a shadow president of Afghanistan giving orders (delusions of grandeur...)
    He declared his candidacy for the Afghan presidency in a post on Facebook, one year after elections were held.
    The announcement came mere hours before his son embarked on a shooting rampage taking the lives of 53 and maiming another 50 at a gay nightclub.
    He came off as unfeeling in the wake of the Orlando shootings, releasing a half-ass condolence in which he concluded that while 'God will punish those involved in homosexuality,' it is 'not an issue that humans should deal with.'
    If anything, actually, he seemed more invested in disclosing that his son 'wasn't gay' (otherwise he 'wouldn't do something like this').

Why he might not be annoying:

    He is a Pashtun who emigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s.
    He expressed his intention to visit the family members of the Orlando shooting victims.
    He claimed that his son was enraged when he saw two men kissing a couple of months ago in Miami, which motivated his killing spree.
    He wrote that he was 'saddened by his son’s actions' in his Facebook post.
    Stories floated around claiming that he had held a White House meeting with President Obama, at some point.
    Although several photos turned up of him with several prominent lawmakers, such as Charles Rangel, no such proof emerged to support the White House claim (although he did write several open letters to the President).

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 17 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 100 Votes: 53.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 114 Votes: 49.12% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 78 Votes: 52.56% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 110 Votes: 70.91% Annoying