Senator Ted Cruz has sent a letter to the DOJ asking them to monitor Bill de Blasio’s New York City for discrimination:
FOX NEWS – Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz called on the Justice Department to “closely monitor New York City” for potential religious discrimination after Mayor Bill de Blasio singled out the Jewish community following a breakup of an Orthodox Jewish funeral.
“The fact that the Mayor made this threat mere days after tweeting in support of a program that would bring ‘hundreds of thousands [of meals] to the 32 sites most frequented by our Muslim communities’ and attending large gatherings with health care workers without protective equipment suggests that the Jewish community is being singled out for special burdens,” Cruz wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr, which his office released Thursday.
Last week De Blasio announced New York City would distribute 500,000 halal meals at 32 specific Department of Education sites in areas where there are “large Muslim communities,” during Ramadan, the holiest month of the year for Muslims.
“It is especially dangerous to single out the Jewish community in a city that is experiencing a substantial rise in violent antisemitism. The Department of Justice should not hesitate to closely monitor New York City to ensure that the Mayor’s rhetoric does not translate into constitutional violations,” Cruz continued.
Yesterday we reported on De Blasio’s warning to the Jewish community.
Ted Cruz was among those who weren’t happy with De Blasio’s warning:
Would DeBlasio have sent this identical tweet with the word “Jewish” replaced by any other religious minority? If not, why not? Laws should be enforced neutrally w/o targeting religious faith. #ProtectFreeExercise https://t.co/dMVcX0bin4
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 29, 2020
We’ve seen De Blasio threaten to shut down churches permanently and now this. But we’ve never heard him make any comments like these to the Muslim community. Rather he’s announcing that “New York City would distribute 500,000 halal meals” to large Muslim communities during Ramadan.