VIDEO: Tim Walz Described Pro-Hitler Muslim Cleric as a ‘Master Teacher’ in 2018

Tim Walz Praises Radical Islam Cleric

The Washington Examiner‘s Gabe Kaminsky unearthed a video of presumptive Democratic VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praising Imam Asad Zaman at an Islamic center event.

Zaman is the director of Minnesota’s Muslim American Society, which has received “over $100,000 in funding” under Walz.

Zaman celebrated when Hamas invaded Israel, slaughtered thousands, and kidnapped hundreds. He has promoted a movie that glorifies Adolf Hitler, shared Hamas propaganda, and cited antisemitic websites.

Kaminsky wrote:

“I would like to first of all say thank you to imam,” Walz said at the unearthed 2018 event, which was hosted by Minnesota’s Muslim American Society on Feb. 16, 2018, at the South Metro Islamic Center in Rosemount, Minnesota. Standing next to Walz as he spoke was Peggy Flanagan, now the lieutenant governor in the Gopher State.“I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it. Over the time we’ve spent together, one of the things I’ve had the privilege of is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher, to try and get the understanding,” Walz said of Zaman at the event, before discussing a prior attack at the Dar al Farooq Islamic Center in Minnesota. “It was imam talking [saying that] ‘in those times is where we find who we are, in those times is where we really see.’“That brings me to the second lesson that imam taught me,” Walz said, describing how Congress “feeds on fear more than hope” and “division.”“It was a lesson when imam told me to go speak to people,” Walz also said at the event. “I have pushed back through my whole career on the demonization of Islam, on the demonization of immigrants. … In this space, Imam Zaman is right on this, there is Islamophobia, there is a hatred that is being stirred.”

Walz’s people denied any relationship with Zaman once reports emerged of the governor hosting the cleric numerous times.

Zaman even delivered an invocation before Walz’s 2019 state address.

Also, a huge thank you to Gabe for including the full video in his post. I wish more people would do this.

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