SEATTLE – A Seattle man arrested after a brief standoff with police now faces hate crime charges related to purported threats against a mosque there.

King County prosecutors claim Houston-native Robert Kinder Farris posted a series of threats to Facebook against the Idriss Mosque. 

Farris, 37, is alleged to have threatened to “take revenge” and “blow Muslims away while they are praying.”

“These people are animals, all of them,” Farris said on Facebook, according to charging papers filed Thursday.

On Tuesday, Farris’s sister called the New York Police Department to report that her brother emailed her threatening suicide. 

Dispatch records indicate the woman told officers her brother had an “AK-47 and wants to be shot by police.”

Investigators in Texas and Seattle then found hateful anti-Muslim statements they contend were posted online by Farris.

“All you gotta do is kill as (many) Muslims as you can, and when the cops get there, point the gun at the cops and don’t shoot,” Farris said in one, according to charging papers. “They will shoot you and it’s over. No prison.”

Farris is alleged to have posted a Google Street View image showing the Idriss Mosque along with a note describing “too many targets to count.”

Seattle police officers responded to Farris’s Bitter Lake neighborhood apartment and arrested Farris after a brief standoff.

Farris is alleged to have made numerous degrading, threatening statements about Muslims, including that “the final crusade against Islam has begun.” Police say Farris admitted to making several of the statements.

Writing the court, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Michael Hogan said Farris told investigators he hates Muslims. Farris, the prosecutor said, was intoxicated when police arrived.

Farris was investigated in 2015 after death threats were made against a Redmond-based Muslim association, Hogan said. Members of the mosque are afraid Farris will act on the threats if he’s released from jail, Hogan continued.

Farris remains jailed pending arraignment on June 30. He has been charged in King County Superior Court with malicious harassment, Washington’s hate crime law.