Miss Puerto Rico has been suspended indefinitely for directing a series of tweets at filmmaker Michael Moore’s “We are all Muslim” campaign.
CNN noted that Miss Puerto Rico 2015, Destiny Velez, was suspended from her role representing the island after she responded to Moore and blasted the Muslim religion.
As the Washington Times reported last week, Moore posted a picture of himself outside Trump Towers in New York City with a sign that read “We are all Muslims” in response to Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. He then encouraged others to post images of themselves holding similar signs.
When Miss Puerto Rico saw the tweet she blasted the religion of Islam and tweeted directly to Moore.
"What Muslims have done is provided oil & terrorize this country & many others!!!!" she wrote. "There's NO comparison between Jews, Christians & Muslims. Jews nor Christians have terrorizing agendas in their sacred books. If we are all the same then Muslims need to take off their napkins off of their heads cuz I feel offended by it."
On Saturday, the Miss Puerto Rico Organization released a statement saying that the 20-year-old beauty queen had been suspended.
Velez was labeled a bully online and later issued an apology.
"I apologize to the people I have offended with my words. I am first and foremost an #UpStander and as such I stand up against bullying," she said. "The last thing I wanted to do was to bully anyone. Again, I apologize to anyone who felt offended with my words."
Velez competed in the 2015 Miss America pageant last September and made it to the top 15.