Tim Walz awarded $100K, hosted Muslim leader who didn’t condemn Oct. 7, touted Hitler film

Tim Walz awarded $100K, hosted Muslim leader who didn’t condemn Oct. 7, touted Hitler film.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has repeatedly hosted an alleged extremist Muslim leader who pledged “unwavering support” for Palestinians after the Oct. 7 terror attack and once promoted a Neo-Nazi propaganda film praising Hitler, according to a report.

Walz, Minnesota’s two-term governor, even doled out cash to the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, which is helmed by Imam Asad Zaman, the Washington Examiner revealed Friday.

The governor’s office has awarded more than $100,000 in funding to the Muslim non-profit in recent years, the outlet found.

“Asad Zaman is one of America’s most prominent Islamist voices and has a long history of extreme rhetoric and ideas,” said Sam Westrop, director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project, to The Post

“Along with Neo-Nazi conspiracy theories and sharing Hamas press releases mourning the death of a convicted war criminal, Zaman and his organization justified the October 7th attacks against Israeli civilians, releasing a sickening statement the very same day offering ‘unwavering support’ for the Palestinian ‘struggle,”’ Westrop said.

Regarding the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Zaman, who was born in Bangladesh, has said his organization “stands in solidarity with Palestinians” after the Palestinian terror group invaded the Jewish state, killing 1,200 Israelis.

“MAS reaffirms its unwavering support for the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation,” said Zaman in a Facebook post as details of the horrific attack surfaced. “Israel’s recent unprovoked 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 a Palestinian flag with the message from fellow St. Paul Muslim community leader Yusuf Abdi Abdulle that the US government “is on the wrong side of history today as it was always by supporting the extremist Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”

A day after the terrorist attacks on Israel, Zaman asked Democratic California Congresswoman Katie Porter, who had condemned the attacks, if she would be willing to “reaffirm the right of Palestinians to defend themselves.”

In November 2015, he also posted a link to “The Greatest Story Never Told” — a 2013 neo-Nazi propaganda film praising Hitler that is popular among antisemites and QAnon conspiracy theorists, according to the Middle East Forum.

“How could Walz and his staff have failed to conduct the most cursory of checks on the company they keep?” Westrop said, adding that his group first warned about Zaman’s extremist rhetoric and his apparent neo-Nazi sympathies in 2019.

“Under Gov. Walz, hundreds of thousands of Minnesotan taxpayers’ dollars have subsidized this hate and radicalism. Which extremists will he end up funding as vice-president?”

In 2016, Zaman posted a Hamas press release about Motiur Rahman Nizami, a Bangladeshi Islamic leader, when Nizami was hanged in 2016 after being convicted of genocide, rape and torture.

Zaman along with other Muslim leaders met at the governor’s office in St. Paul last year for a meeting about mosque security, according to the Washington Examiner.

He also has met with the governor and delivered speeches beside him on several other occasions, including in 2019, when he gave an invocation before Walz’s state address.

Neither Walz’s office nor the imam returned Post requests for comment Friday.

Walz is the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, who took over President Biden’s slot after the 81-year-old commander in chief dropped out of the race over concerns about his mental and physical state.