Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has repeatedly hosted Muslim leaders who have not condemned the October 7th massacre in Israel and promoted films glorifying Adolf Hitler. According to reports.
Walz, Minnesota’s two-term governor, even provided funding to the Muslim American Association of Minnesota, which is led by allegedly extremist imam Asad Zaman, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
According to the media, the governor’s office has provided more than $100,000 in funding to Islamic nonprofit organizations in recent years.
“Assad Zaman is one of America’s most prominent Islamists and has a long history of extremist rhetoric and ideas,” Sam Westropp, director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Monitoring Project, told The Washington Post.
“Neo-Nazi conspiracy theories and Share Hamas issued a press release mourning the death of the convicted war criminal and said Zaman and his organization had been killed on October 7.Number “It issued a nasty statement the same day condemning Israeli attacks on civilians and expressing its ‘unwavering support’ for the Palestinian ‘struggle,'” Westrop said.
In 2016, when Bangladeshi Islamic leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was convicted of genocide, rape and torture and executed by hanging, Zaman published a Hamas press release about Nizami.
Regarding the October massacre, the Bangladesh-born Zaman said his organisation was “in solidarity with the Palestinians” after the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas invaded Israel and killed 1,200 Israelis.
“MAS reaffirms its unwavering support to the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation,” Zaman said in a Facebook post as details of the horrific attack emerged. “Israel’s recent reckless attacks on Palestinian areas have claimed numerous lives… We call on the US government to exert maximum pressure on Israel to respect Palestinian lives.”
Zaman also reposted an image of the Palestinian flag and cited a message from St. Paul’s Muslim community leader Yusuf Abdi Abdulleh, saying, “The United States government is on the wrong side of history today, as it has always been, by supporting the radical Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”
The day after the terrorist attack on Israel, Zaman asked Representative Katie Porter, a California Democrat who had condemned the attack, whether she was willing to “reaffirm the right of Palestinians to defend themselves.”
November 2015, he Also I posted a link to “The Greatest Untold Story” The Middle East Forum said the film is a 2013 neo-Nazi propaganda movie that glorifies Hitler and is popular among anti-Semites and QAnon conspiracy theorists.
“Why would Waltz and his staff not do even the most superficial checks on the companies they were associating with?” Westrop said, adding that his group First warned Regarding Zaman’s extreme comments and neo-Nazi sympathies in 2019.
“Under Governor Walz, hundreds of thousands of Minnesota taxpayer dollars have funded this hate and extremism. Which extremists will he end up funding as vice president?”
According to the Washington Examiner, Zaman and other Muslim leaders held a meeting about mosque security in the governor’s office in St. Paul last year.
He also met with the Governor on several other occasions, including when he offered a prayer before Governor Walz’s State of the State address in 2019 and spoke alongside the Governor.
Neither Walz’s office nor Imam responded to The Post’s requests for comment on Friday.
Walz was named Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate to replace Biden after the 81-year-old commander in chief withdrew from the race due to concerns about his own mental and physical well-being.
