Intersp: Why did the media and politics circulate the racist record of Bloomberg against the Muslims of America?

A prominent British media critic, Mahdi Hassan, criticized billionaire billionaire Michael Bloomberg for winning the third place in the Democratic primary to choose his candidate for the American presidential elections that will be held this year despite his racist history against Muslims and black Americans.

Mahdi Hassan said - in an article published by the Intercept website - that the contestants to win the Republican nomination for the presidential elections in 2016 did not spare an effort to stoke feelings of intolerance and anti-Islam and hostility to Arabs and Muslims, and their speeches were filled with promises that pledged to target Muslims in America and subject them to censorship and follow-up, Trump announced Then he would not rule out closing down mosques and creating a database of all Muslims in the United States if he wins the presidency, and Republican Senator Ted Cruz promised to patrol Muslim neighborhoods and keep them under surveillance.

Mahdi pointed out that the Republicans' promises to pursue Muslims and control them in the United States have remained mere words for electoral consumption, but Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire and former mayor of New York City, succeeded in what Trump and other Republicans were unable to do, as he supervised the collective monitoring practiced against Muslims in the city New York, where the New York Police Department monitored everything related to Muslims, including mosques, restaurants, educational institutions and workplaces, without being based on suspicion or legal permission.

Despite his racist history, Michael Bloomberg has so far received approval from dozens of prominent Democratic mayors and members of Congress for his candidacy.

Shameful silence
Mahdi expressed surprise at the absence of talk about Bloomberg's racist and unconstitutional practices of the policy of arrest and interrogation that targeted New Yorkers of African descent, and the racist and unconstitutional surveillance that targeted New York's Muslim population, and said that these practices were not mentioned in the American media in recent weeks.

Mahdi asked about the reasons for the silence he described as the disgrace that the American media is committed to regarding the history of a billionaire seeking to reach the American presidential race, and he said that this may be due to the fact that the American media and many liberals and democrats do not take Islamophobia seriously, or perhaps because the billionaire paid liberal groups. Prominent to turn a blind eye to his racist record against Muslims.

The writer emphasized that Bloomberg's racist record is indisputable, as overwhelming evidence against him and against the New York Police was collected and documented by the Associated Press in a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles published in 2011.

The agency's investigations revealed that the New York police worked during the period when Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City, with the CIA to deploy teams of undercover agents in Islamic neighborhoods to gather information, and used informants known as "mosque reptiles" to monitor the mosques and the sermons in which they were presented.

Judicial opinion
Mahdi said that a ruling issued by a US federal court in 2015 likened ethnic discrimination and secret surveillance that targeted the Muslim community in New York to discrimination faced by American Jews during what was known as red fear, racial discrimination against African Americans during the civil rights movement, and discrimination against Japanese Americans During the Second World War.

In a 2012 statement, Bloomberg defended the secret mass surveillance that was practiced against New York Muslims and said it was necessary to combat crime, and added, "We have to preserve the safety of this country," despite the admission of New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton that monitoring Muslims in New York did not lead to Any intelligence that requires action.

Mahdi concluded that recent audio recordings were circulated to Bloomberg while making racist statements in a debate about targeting African Americans in New York, which led some public figures and activists to declare that he would not be able to vote for him if he entered the presidential race as a candidate for the Democratic Party against Trump.