Bloomberg just got run over by the CAIR Express.
NEW YORK, NY (CAIR Press Release) — A number of New York Muslim community leaders announced today that they will boycott Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual interfaith breakfast scheduled for Friday because of his public support for the NYPD’s widespread warrantless spying operation targeting Muslim New Yorkers.
According to an Associated Press investigation, NYPD officers have been spying on Muslim New Yorkers, often without any reason for suspicion, as they go about their daily lives at their businesses, school and mosques.
Not so long ago Bloomy was CAIR’s knight in shining armor.
(NEW YORK, N.Y., 8/4/10) — CAIR-New York is calling on American Muslims and others who support freedom of religion to thank Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a speech he gave yesterday defending the rights of Muslims and other Americans to build houses of worship.
The address came shortly after New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously against granting protected status to a building in lower Manhattan, which would have impacted plans to build a community center that would include a mosque in its place. A campaign opposing the right to build the community center sought to use the landmark process to block its construction.