Marcus Robertson, who runs an online school called Timbuktu Seminary where he goes by the name Imam Abu Taubah, denied reports that the Orlando shooter was a student and had choice words for the major party candidates for president in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
Robertson said the school had double-checked its records and that Omar Mateen, who gunned down 49 people at a gay nightclub early Sunday morning was never a student.
Media reports that the school did have a connection to Mateen have brought death threats, Robertson told
"On the Record with Greta van Susteren."
"We are pleading with you. We don't have anything to do with this," he said. "Our heart goes out to the victims and we didn't ever train this guy. Never met him. He is not a student of ours."
Van Susteren asked Robertson whether his is a fan of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"I don't like either one," Robertson replied, saying that while he likes some of Trump's "braggadocious crazy ways … Trump plays to ignorance and kind of like getting people to do crimes and hurt other people, that's not good for the country."
Robertson's objection to Clinton is less political.
"As a Muslim I object to Hillary Clinton," he said. "I don't believe a woman should be the president of a nation. Our Prophet taught us whenever a woman is in charge there are problems. What if she is on menses and wants to go to war because she is angry?"
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