Walz’s administration has given $100,000 to a radical cleric and his Muslim organization
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is under fire for his links to a radical Muslim cleric who has praised Hitler and celebrated the 7 October attacks on Israel.
State records reviewed by the Washington Examiner show that Walz’s administration has donated over $100,000 to Imam Asad Zaman’s group Muslim American Society of Minnesota, which has been described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US.”
The Muslim American Society of Minnesota has even been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.
Imam Asad Zaman, originally from Bangladesh, has used his Facebook page to share Hamas press releases and even promote videos praising Adolf Hitler.
He has also reaffirmed his support for Hamas against Israel in the wake of the 7 October attacks.
Zaman has attended multiple events in person with Governor Walz dating back to at least the beginning of 2019, when the two men participated in a Ramadan event and when Zaman delivered an invocation at Walz’s state address. The imam was also reportedly present at a May 2020 event with Walz to call for peaceful protests in Minnesota following George Floyd’s death.
The Harris-Walz campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on the governor’s relationship with Mr Zaman.
Since being chosen as the Vice President’s presumptive running mate for the presidency, Governor Walz has come under intense scrutiny for his radical policies as governor and also for misleading comments about his military record, made over many years.
Newly resurfaced video from a hearing in 2008 shows Minnesota Governor Tim Walz implying heavily that he suffered PTSD from deployment to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Walz was speaking to the family of a Gold Star veteran at the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Veterans and Mental Health when he made remarks that suggested he had personal experience of PTSD after serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2004 with the National Guard.
“I can tell you this, having been one of those that came back. We were in support of OEF [Operation Enduring Freedom]… when we came back, they showed us the horse whisperer and told us to be nice when we went home. And that was the extent of it. That was in 2004.”
Walz has been accused of “stolen valor” for inflating his rank and the importance of his operational deployments. Walz never took part in Operation Enduring Freedom, the name for US operations directly in and above Afghan territory, but was posted to Italy with the National Guard in a support role.
He has also been criticized for retiring from the National Guard in order to avoid a deployment to an actual warzone, Iraq.
