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Neo-Nazism, Islamism: Who is Imam Asad Zaman, hosted by Tim Walz?
Mathilda Heller
August 12, 2024

Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s new running mate in her presidential campaign, has hosted an extremist Islamist Imam Asad Zaman on several occasions, the Washington Examiner first reported over the weekend. Walz hosted Zaman three times in 2019, once in 2020, and again in 2023, among others, the Washington Examiner reported. The Washington Free Beacon found last week that Walz appeared alongside an antisemitic scholar at a conference called “Challenging Islamophobia,” hosted by CAIR in 2019. The Washington Examiner revealed Friday that Walz has also donated $100,000 to the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, a non-profit headed by Asad Zaman. According to court records, the Muslim American Society was once described as “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.” READ MORE

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