The father of ISIS-inspired gay club shooter Omar Mateen sent some seriously mixed messages on Monday — posting to Facebook that homosexuals should be “punished” and then hours later saying he won’t forgive his son or “miss anything about him.”

“I apologize for what my son did,” Seddique Mateen said at his home in Port St. Lucie, Fla. “I am as sad and mad as you guys are…What he did was against humanity…If I did catch him, I would arrest him myself.”

But in a video posted to Facebook earlier in the day, the elder Mateen blasted the LGBT community, saying: “God will punish those involved in homosexuality.”

The 59-year-old father​, originally from Afghanistan and an avowed devotee of the Taliban,​ added he didn’t know what could have set off his son’s deadly rampage early Sunday at the Pulse gay nightclub, but insisted that killing gays was “not an issue that humans should deal with.”

“He had a child and a wife and was very dignified, meaning he had respect for his parents,” Seddique Mateen said of his son, standing in front of the flag of his homeland and speaking in Dari.

“I don’t know what caused him to shoot last night,” he said.

The elder Mateen hosts an anti-American TV show that airs in Afghanistan and has appeared in countless Facebook videos, including one he posted online right around the time of his son’s rampage.

Wearing military fatigues and saluting the camera, he urges the people of Afghanistan to rise up and rid the country of its “traitors.”

In another video posted minutes earlier, Seddique Mateen calls ISIS militants “murderers of the people” and “enemies of the Afghan people.”

He also has a YouTube channel, which, along with his Facebook page, he uses to spout his irrational political beliefs.

Describing the dad’s videos, a CBS translator said he believed Mateen was delusional.

“He thinks he runs a government in exile and will soon take the power in Kabul in a revolution,” the translator said.

Seddique’s wife — and Omar’s mother — Shahla Mateen, was arrested in 2002 on a domestic-violence charge for pinching her husband hard enough to leave a visible mark, Orlando’s Sun Sentinel reported.

Shahla told authorities her husband threatened to kill her. The charges were eventually dropped.

Mateen, who once reportedly campaigned in the United States for current Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, claims to have his own intelligence agency and close ties to Congress.

He has posted several photos in the past, featuring himself gracing the halls of Congress and posing alongside Reps. Charles Rangel, Dana Rohrabacher, and Ed Royce.

A spokeswoman for Rangel told The Post that the congressman was stopped in the hallway by Mateen and asked for a photo — and while he happily obliged, there was no formal meeting between the two.

“The Congressman doesn’t know him nor recall this brief encounter with him, especially because it was on the day of state of the union 2015, which is probably the most crowded and busiest day in Congress,” she explained.

Rohrabacher, a California Republican, told Buzzfeed he did not remember meeting Seddique Mateen, and “probably never saw him again.”

Royce later claimed in a statement that his meeting with Mateen a year and a half ago was “brief and inconsequential.”

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