Tim Walz labeled ‘Trojan horse’ for terror as ‘banner of Jihad’ rises over MN, across US
Salute to Islam seen from coast to coast 'a significant threat to our national security'
Democratic candidate for vice president Tim Walz is at the center of what appears to be a coordinated effort to salute Islamic radicals across the United States.
Minnesota replaced its 131-year-old traditional state flag in May following a redesign effort signed into law last year by Gov. Walz. It was hurried through a public and legislative process with unusual speed, critics say.
Minnesota’s new two-tone blue flag is featureless except for a distinct white 8-point star that is largely unknown in American culture or flag design.
“Islamist organizations in Minnesota … found a Trojan horse in Tim Walz.”
The same 8-point star is a globally recognized Islamist emblem rooted in the Quran and linked to Hamas, Iran’s intelligence agency, mosque design, Islamic art and even Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party.
“Islamist organizations in Minnesota are now clearly pro-Hamas and they found a Trojan horse in Tim Walz to penetrate state government," said Asra Nomani, an India-born Muslim and author of "Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom." She is also co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement.
The same star emblazoned on Minnesota’s new flag appears on the flags of Azerbaijan, the Organization of Turkic States and a historical flag of the Ottoman Empire. It is also displayed on flags of cities, provinces, political parties and government agencies throughout the Muslim world – most notably in Iran.
More unsettling: The Muslim 8-point icon is suddenly the hottest new trend in American flag design. The star appears on at least 35 new or proposed-new city and state flags across the U.S.
"I see the patterns of a significant threat to our national security in a very visible takeover of America without a single shot being fired,” said Donna Bergstrom, a retired U.S. Marine Corps military intelligence officer and deputy chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
The significance of the 8-point star and octagon is traced to the Quran and it’s known by various names, including rub el hizb, khatim and Najmat al-Quds (Star of Jerusalem).
The 8-point star is also known as al-Arsh – the Throne of Allah.
“According to Islamic perspective, (the shape) symbolizes the eight angels that will be around the throne of Allah on the day of judgment," Ahmed Faraz, of the University of Home Economics in Lahore, Pakistan, wrote for Al-Qamar Journal in July 2023.
“Two squares placed with 45-degree difference in their positions … means ‘division in quarters’ of the Holy Quran for easy recitation and memorization.”
NEW FLAGS SPURRED BY CANCEL CULTURE
The new-flag movement is part of a cancel-culture frenzy to purge traditional American images far-left activists deem racist or colonialist – often achieved via flawed or fabricated historical narratives.
Native American history is in the cancel-culture crosshairs. The far-left National Congress of American Indians, which touts the Soros family among its benefactors, has led the effort to remove indigenous imagery from the American cultural landscape in sports.
Minnesota's original flag displayed a man on horseback in Native dress waving to a farmer. Critics argued the image was offensive to Natives and forced the state to adopt a new flag.
"A significant threat to our national security in a very visible takeover of America without a single shot being fired.”
The puppet masters behind the nationwide movement are unknown at the moment. But the pattern is unmistakably coordinated.
Once a state like Minnesota, or a city like Norman, Okla., decides to redesign its flag, ordinary citizens and artists submit their creations.
Many of their ideas have already been shared among digital communities of flag-design enthusiasts on Reddit, Facebook and other platforms.
Submissions invariably follow "'Good' Flag, ‘Bad' Flag" design guidelines dictated by the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA).
The new flags emerging from the public and political process display an 8-point Islamic star, previously foreign to American flag culture, with shocking frequency.
Walz failed to respond to numerous requests for response. But two facts are certain:
ONE - Walz gleefully embraced the new Minnesota flag with a video post on X on May 11, the anniversary of statehood. He personally replaced the 131-year-old Minnesota flag in the governor’s office with the new Islamic flag. “There, that’s better,” he declared.
TWO - The nationwide movement of new flags displaying a deeply cherished symbol of Islamic faith fulfills repeated demands made by Hamas.
TERRORISTS WAVE SAME ‘BANNER OF JIHAD’
Hamas, the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group, pledges to raise the “banner of Jihad” or “flag of Allah” over its enemies nine times in the 36 articles of its hate-filled foundational Covenant of 1988.
"In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised," the terror group declares in Article 15.
The chilling Hamas platform also calls for followers to kill Jews, preemptively rejects any peace plan that includes a Jewish state, and declares "there is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad."
The 8-point “Throne of Allah” star is ubiquitous in Iran.
“(The 8-point star) symbolizes the eight angels that will be around the throne of Allah on the day of judgment.”
It’s displayed on the flag of the capital city of Tehran, the global center of organized terror; and on the flag of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, the spy agency dedicated to subversive efforts to defeat the "Great Satan" America.
Eight-point Islamic stars have also been seen on pro-Hamas protest signs in the U.S., on Palestinian apparel sold by online retailers, and was even stitched onto the uniforms of Muslim units that fought for Adolf Hitler’s Waffen SS in World War II.
"Jihad is not confined to the carrying of arms and the confrontation of the enemy," declares Article 30 of the Hamas Covenant.
"The effective word, the good article, the useful book, support and solidarity - together with the presence of sincere purpose for the hoisting of Allah's banner higher and higher - all these are elements of the Jihad for Allah's sake."
WALZ COMMITTEE LED FLAG REDESIGN EFFORT
Walz signed the bill to replace Minnesota’s traditional banner as part of the state budget in May 2023.
His stroke of the pen set in motion a whirlwind process to rebrand a state of 6 million people. The Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission met for the first time on Sept. 5, 2023.
It replaced the flag that had represented the Gopher State for 130 years just three months later, on Dec. 19, after reportedly reviewing 2,500 public submissions.
The 13 members of the commission included Secretary of State Steve Simon and representatives of various arts and cultural boards. Five represented racial identity groups. Three members were selected by Walz. Artist Luis Fitch chaired the commission.
"This was pure art and pure exercise," Fitch told Minnesota National Public Radio after hosting an exhibit at his Minneapolis gallery amid the redesign effort in October 2023.
The purpose of the exercise was, he added: “To explore the symbolism, the history and obviously the cultural significance behind each design element."
An 8-point star appeared as a design element on 5 of the 6 new-flag finalists selected by the Minnesota committee.
“It felt like a purposely expedited process," said Minnesota Republican State Sen. Steve Drazkowski, a non-voting member of the flag committee.
"They didn’t want, nor did they value, public input.”
Fitch, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and other state officials and committee members, like Walz, did not respond to numerous requests for their version of the redesign process.
WALZ EXTREMIST ALLIES DISPLAY SAME 8-POINT STAR
Critics have expressed deep concerns over Walz’s friendly relationships with the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The Muslim American Society was dubbed a front-group for the Muslim Brotherhood by convicted terrorist Abdurrahman Alamoudi in federal court in 2010.
Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, has a history of social media posts supporting Jihad, racism and hate groups.
Zaman "once promoted a Neo-Nazi propaganda film praising Hitler," the New York Post reported in August.
Yet Walz has hosted events with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, while his administration donated more than $100,000 to the organization, according to state records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The Muslim American Society represents itself with the same 8-point Islamic star seen on the new Minnesota flag. The logo appears on the MAS website, social media platforms and marketing materials.
"Walz gave political capital to an organization with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that supports Hamas, seeks to impose sharia law in Western democracies throughout the world and in so doing, undermine women’s rights," Dalia al-Aqidi, an Iraqi-born Muslim and senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, wrote after a Walz-MAS event in 2022.
"No responsible politician would share the stage, online or otherwise, with a (Muslim Brotherhood) front group.”
Walz was photographed at a CAIR conference in St. Paul in 2019 with radical anti-Semite Hatem Bazian, the founder of National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP).
The controversial far-left NSJP calls for violence against Jews and the destruction of Israel. It organized often violent pro-Hamas protests across the U.S. over the past year.
The NSJP also displays the Islamic 8-point star on its social media, manifestos and campus calls to action.
The new Minnesota flag “makes visible an alliance between Islamic extremists and the potential U.S. vice president,” said “Woke Army” author Nomani.
‘THRONE OF ALLAH’ HOTTEST TREND IN US FLAG DESIGN
While Minnesota's flag was getting a makeover, the fashion trend unfolded around the nation.
Utah raced to raise the banner first. Its state flag commission also emerged in 2023 with a final new flag emblazoned with an 8-point star. It was scheduled to be raised in March, two months before Minnesota.
The stunning coincidence raised red flags for Lisa Davis, the Utah woman who first noticed the same symbol appeared on winning new flag designs in two different states.
Independent state flag commissions, 1,200 miles apart, reviewed a combined 10,000 public design submissions, she noted. Yet both emerged with the same symbol, the same year, never seen before on a U.S. state flag.
"None of this is coincidence," said Davis. "They wouldn’t spend all this time and money and effort to replace a flag if it wasn’t about more than just a flag."
In addition to Minnesota, an 8-point star appears on more than a dozen new flags recently adopted by American cities. Among them: Evanston, Illinois; Garden Plain, Kansas; Hutchinson, Kansas; Kent, Ohio; Lincoln, Nebraska; Norman, Oklahoma; Reno, Nevada; and Springfield, Missouri.
The feature has been proposed for new flags in about 20 other U.S. cities and states. They include Massachusetts, Illinois and Cleveland, Ohio, each actively working to cancel traditional flags.
State and city redesign commissions attribute many different meanings to the same 8-point star seen throughout the Islamic world.
NEW U.S. CITY FLAGS
Minnesota says the symbol represents the North Star; Utah said it referenced indigenous tribes.
Evanston claims the 8-point star is a lighthouse beam; Norman touts it as a compass rose; Reno says the star reflects the city’s sunburst landmark; Hutchinson points to a symbol of the centrality of Kansas; and Kent says the star is one that guided escaped slaves north in the 19th century. For a proposed flag of Toledo, Ohio, the 8-point star is touted as the “spark of industry.”
A committee behind Cleveland’s effort to cancel its traditional flag proposed four different banners, each with 8-point stars, but with four different meanings: "maritime," "navigation," "new horizon" and "best location in the nation" flags.
Illinois began accepting public submissions for new state flag concepts on Sept. 3. Several versions of a new state standard with an 8-point star have already been floated among the digital communities that serve as incubators for new flags.
Both Minnesota and Utah betrayed commitment to a state flag with their lists of new-design finalists.
PROPOSED U.S. STATE FLAGS
An 8-point star appeared on 5 of 6 finalists publicized by Minnesota’s flag commission; and it appeared on 3 of 5 finalists publicized by Utah’s flag commission.
The 8-point symbol that appeared on 8 of 11 flag finalists across two states had never appeared on any U.S. state flag – until Walz’s Minnesota hoisted it in 2024.
“Flying Islamic flags over our state capitals isn’t scandalous,” said Utah activist Davis. “It’s fucking treason. The religious beliefs and ideologies of Islam go against our founding principles.”
REDESIGN PROCESS RIGGED IN AT LEAST THREE STATES
Fears of a coordinated effort on behalf of Islamists are heightened by at least three known efforts to rig the outcomes of the redesign process. Each unfolded in plain sight.
Minnesota officials credited artist Andrew Prekker for the winning design in December 2023. But the new Gopher State guidon hoisted over Minnesota in May bore only some resemblance to the designer’s “winning” entry.
The sharply pointed star on Prekker’s pennant reflected the North Star embedded in the floor of the capitol rotunda, according to state officials. But in the days after Prekker received statewide press for his achievement, his North Star was replaced by a traditional Islamic rub el hizb 8-point star.
Minnesota flag redesign committee chair Fitch pulled off the symbol swindle in plain sight.
An Associated Press photo from a public meeting in December 2023 shows Fitch holding storyboards in which Prekker’s “winning” design is slowly transformed into the one that now flies over Minnesota.
Bernie Allen-Harrah, 7, of Evanston, Illinois, achieved local celebrity in May when she was named winner of the city’s flag redesign contest. The adorable little girl was pictured in local media reports holding her magic-marker design.
Bernie’s flag included a 10-point illuminating beacon meant to represent a local landmark lighthouse.
But when she was given the honor of hoisting Evanston’s new flag in a schoolyard ceremony on Aug. 23, her 10-point lighthouse beacon had been replaced by an 8-point Islamic star.
Utah also appears to have rigged the system.
Flagmaker Michael Green of Flags for Good proposed a new Utah flag during a May 2021 Ted Talk at Utah State University.
Utah formed a new flag task force the following year. It claims it reviewed more than 7,000 public submissions and it announced the winning design in 2023.
The flag that topped the list looked just like the banner Green introduced before the process even began: red stripe on bottom, jagged white stripe in middle, blue stripe across the top. Green’s centered yellow polygon, symbolic of the Beehive State, was replaced by a yellow-striped blue polygon with a more realistic beehive image.
Green denied being the designer.
“I wish it were mine,” he said.
There was one notable difference between his 2021 design and the chosen new flag. Utah officials added an 8-point Islamic star to Green’s original design.
The scam was exposed when Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson told local media that the star represented the eight indigenous tribes of Utah. Her claim outraged members of Utah’s five indigenous tribes.
The 8-point star was hastily changed to a traditional 5-point American star weeks before the new ensign was hoisted over the state in March 2024.
Prekker and Green have one other thing in common beyond flag-design street cred. Both have publicly posted anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas sentiments on social media. Both accuse Israel of committing genocide.
Green refuses to sell the flag of Israel on his company website. He does sell the Palestine flag.
Muslim scholars say the “banner of Jihad” trend in the U.S. shows that Islamic terror has infiltrated American politics.
"The Iranian regime is the most fascistic, Islamist, theocratic regime on the planet, yet the far left plays footsie with them all the time," said Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
“The trend is definitely a tip of the hat to the red-green or Marxist-Jihadist axis. The left always finds a way to give the Islamists oxygen."