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<\/p>\nOrlando Shooter\u2019s First Wife Says He Was Gay, Attacked Pulse to Impress His Homophobic Father\u00a0\u2013 WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n
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Sitora Yusufiy, the first wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, is speaking out about her relationship with the man<\/a> responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in American history.<\/p>\n In an interview with Crime Watch Daily, Yusufiy says that she believes Mateen was gay<\/a> and that his attack on the Pulse nightclub was motivated by a desire to win the approval of his father, Saddique, who often publicly disparaged gay<\/a> people.<\/p>\n Crime Watch Daily reports: <\/a><\/p>\n Sitora Yusufiy believes her ex-husband was gay<\/a> and continually tormented by what she calls<\/a> his homophobic father, Seddique Mateen. Sitora says Omar lived life in the shadows.<\/p>\n Yusufi tells Crime Watch Daily she is absolutely adamant her ex’s pledge to ISIS in the midst of the horror was a ruse. Sitora says he was really just out to win the approval of his dad, who often publicly disparaged gays<\/a>.<\/p>\n “When I heard that he pledged to ISIS, I immediately knew that was nonsense, because I knew Omar,” Yusufiy says.<\/p>\n Yusufiy is convinced that Mateen was gay<\/a> in part at least because “he never was sexually interested” in her. “There was no sexual connection between us,” Yusufiy explains.<\/p>\n Yusufiy also says that Mateen used gay<\/a> dating apps and frequented gay<\/a> nightclubs, proof in her mind that he was gay<\/a>. “There’s no other way to explain him having so many dating site apps and visiting clubs and dancing with gay<\/a> men<\/a> and confiding in them.”<\/p>\n Some, however, have suggested Mateen may have been using gay<\/a> dating apps as a sort of reconnaissance tool to find out more about the men<\/a> he was targeting.<\/p>\n Yet according to Yusufiy, Mateen was wrestling with homophobia he had internalized from his father. “Omar would always say [gay people] are the biggest sinners, and they can’t be–they should not be alive,” she says. And much of that rhetoric Mateen adopted from her father.<\/p>\n According to Yusufiy, Mateen’s father also made fun of him in public for acting in a manner he perceived to be ‘gay<\/a>.’<\/p>\n Yusufiy has previously gone on the record as saying she believes Mateen was gay. <\/a><\/p>\n Other individuals have come forward saying they recognized Mateen from gay dating apps<\/a> and gay<\/a> clubs. One gay<\/a> man<\/a> who went to high school with Mateen says he believes Mateen was gay and that he hit on him<\/a>. Another man<\/a> claims to have been Mateen’s lover.<\/a> However, the FBI has said they have no evidence<\/a> which leads them to believe that Mateen was gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch both parts of Yusufiy’s interview, below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Orlando Shooter’s First Wife Says He Was Gay, Attacked Pulse to Impress His Homophobic Father – WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n