Dexter Van Zile
Focus on Western Islamism, Aug. 23, 2024
“Walz has a lot to answer for, but no one is going to ask him about it. The idea seems to be that you can’t say anything critical of Muslims without being accused of being an anti-Muslim radical, so people just ignore it. [Muslims] vote Democratic, so that’s it.”
Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for the vice presidency, has enjoyed softball coverage of his affiliation with—and praise for— an Islamist imam who celebrated the October 7 massacre and promoted a film that lionized Adolf Hitler.
Aside from a video of Presidential candidate Donald Trump brutally mocking Walz for calling well-known Islamist Asad Zaman a “master teacher,” the governor of Minnesota has not been seriously challenged for his connections to the imam, which he has lamely tried to deny, declaring he has no “personal ties” to the man. It’s not particularly believable given that Zaman serves as the executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.
Still, the Washington Post has ignored the story, prompting Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of NewsBusters.org to declare that the paper “reads like it’s owned by the Democratic National Committee” (which by the way hasn’t responded to a press inquiry from Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).)
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