(Washington Examiner) The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky discussed his new investigative report detailing the ties Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has to a Muslim cleric, who in one case has promoted a movie praising Adolf Hitler on social media.
The cleric in question, Asad Zaman, is from the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whom Walz has hosted on at least five different occasions. Kaminsky stated that this group was deemed as “an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood” in 2008 in a terrorism financing case.
“But this individual, Asad Zaman, has a controversial history on social media, on his Facebook page,” Kaminsky told the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro when discussing his report. “He has, in one case, promoted a pro-Hitler movie, a movie that glorifies Adolf Hitler. On Oct. 7, when 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered in the Jewish state, his immediate response was to say that Palestinians had a right to resist, a right to defend themselves. And this individual has promoted other conspiracy theories on his social media history.”
The movie in question that Zaman promoted was titled The Greatest Story Never Told, which was released in 2013 and shared by Zaman in 2015. The Muslim cleric has also used his Facebook page over the years to share Hamas press releases, as well as blog posts on antisemitic websites slamming Jews, according to Kaminsky’s report.
The question of Walz’s connection to Zaman has come under the spotlight after the Minnesota governor was selected by Vice President Kamala Harris as her 2024 running mate. Kaminsky said that the Harris campaign claimed that Walz “has no relationship with this individual.”
