Miss Puerto Rico suspended after offensive tweets about Muslims
Puerto Rico may be looking for a new beauty queen after 20-year-old Destiny Velez fired off a round of offensive tweets about Muslims.
The former beauty contestant sent several tweets to filmmaker Michael Moore after he posted a tweet with the hashtag #WeAreAllMuslim on Thursday, according to Latin Times.
Join me. Please make your own sign WE ARE ALL MUSLIM and post it on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook w/ #WeAreAllMuslimpic.twitter.com/dfMBrAyywK
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 18, 2015
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Her Twitter account has since been disabled but she reportedly sent several tweets including one that said, "Muslims use our constitution to terrorize USA & plant gas stations."
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It didn't take long for the Miss Puerto Rico Organization to criticize Velez's actions.
The group released a statement on Facebook that reads in part, "Miss Velez's actions were in contradiction to the organization, and therefore as a consequence of her actions, she has been suspended indefinitely."
Velez also released a statement through the organization's Facebook page.
"The last thing I wanted to do was to bully anyone ... I apologize to anyone who felt offended with my words," she wrote.
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