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Tim Walz ‘repeatedly’ hosted a Muslim cleric celebrating the October 7 massacre
In May 2023, Asad Zaman, head of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders for a meeting on mosque safety with Walz’s office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at an event in May 2020 to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the Minnesota riots sparked by the death of George Floyd.
In recent years, Imam Asad Zaman has used his Facebook page to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts from anti-Semitic sites and a 2015 link to a pro-Hitler film, “The Greatest Story Never Told.”
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the neo-Nazi propaganda film is notorious for being anti-Semitic and popular among fringe anti-Jewish groups.
Walz’s administration has also donated more than $100,000 to Zaman’s group, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, according to state records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Federal prosecutors have described the Muslim American Society as “established as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US.”
Zaman, who is from Bangladesh, said he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks” following the coordinated attack on October 7.
He also shared an image of a Palestinian flag on Facebook in response to a post by Yusuf Abdi Abdulle, executive director of the Islamic Association of North America, in which he stated that “Palestine has the right to defend itself.”
The Biden-Harris administration wrote in a social media post that Abdulle was “on the wrong side of history” in “supporting the extremist Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”
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Walz is also facing backlash after retired Capt. Corey Bjertness, a member of the governor’s former National Guard unit, told the New York Post that Harris’ choice for vice president was a “coward.”
He told the outlet: “In our world, to drop out after a WARNORD [warning order] is cowardly, especially for a high-ranking man.”
“Running for Congress is not an excuse,” Bjertness said of Walz’s decision to quit. “I stopped everything and went to war. I left my wife with three teenagers and a six-year-old and I was gone for nineteen months.”
Former President Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican Party have used Walz’s alleged “stolen courage” to attack the Harris/Walz campaign after the Democratic ticket skyrocketed in the polls.
