Meet Sabrina Siddiqui, ‘journalist’ who bought a befitting reply from PM Modi about ‘minorities’ in India

On Thursday, June 22, Indian PM Narendra Modi addressed a joint press convention with US President Joe Biden throughout his state go to to the United States. During the press convention, a journalist tried to insinuate that rights of Muslims and different minorities are underneath risk in India and consequently the democratic values. The journalist bought a befitting response from PM Modi as he reminded everybody of the historical past of Indian democracy, which is rooted in valuing human rights and non-discrimination.

For the uninitiated, the journalist who went on to pose the cleverly manufactured query echoing the claims of Islamists and left-liberals; alleging persecution of Muslims in India, was none aside from Sabrina Siddiqui.

Sabrina Siddiqui is a Muslim American journalist working for The Wall Street Journal. She is a White House reporter in Washington, D.C., the place she covers the Biden presidency. She has additionally lined the White House and the 2016 presidential election whereas working at The Guardian earlier than 2019.

Previously, she lined the Obama administration and Congress at The Huffington Post and likewise labored with the White House workforce at Bloomberg.

Siddiqui, the daughter of Pakistani dad and mom, is a graduate of Northwestern University and lives in Washington along with her husband. According to studies, her father was born in India however was raised in Pakistan. Her mom was a Pakistani, nevertheless, Siddiqui was born in America.

Asking the query, Sabrina Siddiqui stated, “World leaders have made commitments to protecting democracy. What steps are you and your government willing to take to protect the rights of Muslims and other minorities and to uphold free speech?”

In response, PM Modi stated, “I am surprised that you are saying that ‘people say’ India is a democracy. It is not about what people say, India is a democracy. And as President Biden said, both India and America have democracy in their DNA. Democracy is our spirit, democracy flows in our veins. We live in a democracy and our ancestors have put that into words in the shape of the Constitution and our government runs on the basis of the Constitution which is based on the basic democratic values.”

The query posed to PM Modi by ‘journalist’ Sabrina Siddiqui jibes completely effectively with the hackneyed liberal propaganda portraying the Modi authorities because the enemy of the Muslims. It additionally matches with the ‘rising Muslim intolerance’ narrative that the Western media has been pushing to sully Modi’s popularity in India and world wide ever since he got here to energy in 2014.

Sabrina Siddiqui’s try to disparage the Indian authorities on a world stage is, nevertheless, unsurprising, on condition that she has a historical past of demonstrating an unseemly eagerness to vilify India and the Indian authorities led by PM Modi. The social media accounts of Sabrina Siddiqui are suffering from posts geared toward destroying PM Modi’s popularity and portraying him as a pacesetter who has given the nation’s Hindu nationalists carte blanche to behave as per their whims and fancies.

The ‘journalist’ has additionally by no means shied away from claiming that the Modi administration is responsible for the rise of intolerance within the nation.

Motivated by her pathological hatred for PM Modi and India, ‘journalist’ Sabrina Siddiqui has usually shared fabricated articles from Western liberal bastions like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Reuters, and a number of other different information retailers, that are all the time keen to provide area to Modi’s criticism with out critically evaluating its legitimacy; to meticulously paint a grim image of Narendra Modi.

The Modi govt definitely takes nice pleasure in its cultural id and historic traditions, one thing that the earlier UPA regimes and the Congress get together had all the time scorned and despised. The solely factor that the Modi govt has maybe stopped is the appeasement of radical components of the Muslim neighborhood that Congress did unabashedly. The Modi authorities has stopped the minority appeasement and referred to as out the risk posed by the menace of Islamic radicalism. This has proliferated the ire of the left-leaning liberals and Islamists each in India and the West and prompted the likes of Sabrina Siddiqui to work additional time to mission Modi as anti-Muslim.

Leftist liberals and Islamists are busy singing accolades for the WSJ journalist

Nevertheless, ever since Sabrina Siddiqui questioned the Indian Prime Minister in regards to the steps taken by his authorities to enhance the rights of minorities in India, insinuating that the rights of Muslims and different minorities are underneath risk in India, she is being hailed as a hero by the left-leaning liberal brigade.

Social media is replete with tweets from loyal members of this avid Modi-hater gang, who’re lauding The Wall Street Journal ‘journalist’ for posing, what they’re relating to as a gutsy query to India’s PM that left him speechless on a world stage.

One such ‘esteemed’ member of this liberal bastion going euphoric in regards to the so-called ‘heroism’ exhibited by Sabrina Siddiqui is none aside from AltNews’ Mohammed Zubair, the person chargeable for unleashing the wave of Islamist violence in India that resulted within the loss of life of no less than 6 Hindus, together with Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur and Umesh Kolhe in Amravati.

Zubair inferred that PM Modi was caught off guard and began ‘beating around the bush’ when Sabrina Sidduiqui posed that query to him.

Questions from @SabrinaSiddiqui was particularly about “steps you are willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims & other minorities in India to uphold free speech.”
PM was beating across the bush and his response was in generic about how Indian is a Democratic Country,… https://t.co/v7Jnpgzr7C

— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) June 22, 2023

‘Journalist’ Arfa Khanum Sherwani, who has by no means held again from selling false claims to painting Muslims as victims in Modi’s India and thereby displaying her blatant hatred for Modi, additionally praised The Wall Street Journal ‘journalist’ by inferring that WSJ journalist left Modi tongue-tied along with her ‘hard hitting’ query.

Tweeting the query Sabrina Siddiqui posed to Modi on the joint press convention with US President Joe Biden throughout his state go to to the US, she stated, “The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy standing on a global stage can not answer a simple question on how he plans to make things better for India’s Muslims.”

“steps you are willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims and other minorities in India ?”

The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy standing on a world stage can’t reply a easy query on how he plans to make issues higher for India’s Muslims.

— Arfa Khanum Sherwani (@khanumarfa) June 22, 2023

‘Journalist’ Swati Chaturvedi additionally retweeted a publish by Jacqui Heinrich at the moment serving as a White House Correspondent for FOX News channel, to laud Sabrina Siddiqui for calling out Modi by elevating ‘human rights’ points.

Modi, referred to as out on human rights report by WSJ’s @SabrinaSiddiqui, bizarrely claims there may be “no discrimination in India’s democracy”, vehemently defends human rights report

Modi had been requested what he steps he’s taking to enhance rights of Muslims and uphold free speech

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) June 22, 2023

The adulation being showered on Sabrina Siddiqui by this coterie of leftist liberals and Islamists is evidently as a result of she, too, is a loyal member of this anti-Modi, anti-Hindu and anti-India brigade. Several of Sabrina Siddiqui’s outdated tweets clearly show her pathological hatred in direction of PM Modi, India and Hindus on the whole.

When Sabrina Siddiqui used the Covid-19 pandemic to unfold pretend information in opposition to Modi govt

In 2020-2021, when India, like each different nation on the planet, was coping with the scourge of Covid-19, Sabrina Siddiqui reaped the chance to unfold canards in opposition to Modi by questioning India’s preparedness in dealing with the disaster.

“At the beginning of March, the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi claimed the country was in Covid-19’s ‘endgame’. India is now in a living hell.” https://t.co/OHiNjkdHMA

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) April 24, 2021

In one other tweet, the WSJ journalist selected to make use of one of many a number of articles Reuters had printed then, milking the humanitarian disaster to hawk lies, misinformation and propaganda in opposition to Modi.

On April twentieth 2021, Reuters wrote about Prime Minister Modi being “scorned” over “reckless rallies, religious gatherings”. Sabrina Siddiqui shared the article and tweeted, “You hold rallies as people head to funerals,” in an apparent try to color Modi as insensitive.

“You hold rallies as people head to funerals.”

India’s Narendra Modi scorned over reckless rallies amid virus mayhem: https://t.co/rb5gtVcmqw

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) April 20, 2021

Likewise, when India was grappling with a formidable second wave of the Coronavirus outbreak, a number of leftist media retailers tried to fearmonger by spreading pretend information in regards to the scarcity of oxygen and the way the Modi authorities was doing nothing to resolve the problem. Sabrina Siddiqui had maliciously used an article printed by the leftist web site Scroll, titled: India is working out of oxygen, Covid-19 sufferers are dying – as a result of the federal government wasted time, which squarely blamed the Modi authorities for the scarcity of oxygen within the nation.

Narendra Modi’s authorities waited till Oct 2020, eight months after the pandemic started, to ask bids for a contract to put oxygen technology techniques inside greater than 150 district hospitals. Six months later, most nonetheless aren’t up and working. https://t.co/e39JcG4MI8

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) April 23, 2021

The article printed by Scroll on April 18, 2021, learn that the Narendra Modi authorities took eight months to ask bids for brand new oxygen technology crops which brought about the shortage of oxygen at an important time when the lethal second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was sweeping by the nation.

The reality was, nevertheless, that amidst the second wave of an infection, the federal government of India had labored extensively to extend the manufacturing of oxygen within the nation. According to the federal government’s knowledge, the manufacturing of medical oxygen had risen by 500% since February 2021.

Additionally, to fulfill the very excessive demand for medical oxygen because of the then surging Covid-19 instances, the union authorities had taken proactive motion within the first week of April 2020, earlier than oxygen shortages began to seem in a number of hospitals largely in Delhi and granted permission to industrial oxygen producers to fabricate oxygen for medical use.

Sabrina Siddiqui used Aryan Khan’s arrest in drug case to hawk her anti-Modi rhetorics

Such is her hate for Modi that in 2021, when Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested within the cruise ship drug case, she rapidly went on to make use of the information to hawk her anti-Modi rhetorics. She tweeted, “This is not just about Shah Rukh Khan, but about anyone the government resents for not prostrating before Modi and his nationalist vision. This moment in India should be a reckoning — unite and fight, or perish in fear.”

“This is not just about Shah Rukh Khan, but about anyone the government resents for not prostrating before Modi and his nationalist vision. This moment in India should be a reckoning — unite and fight, or perish in fear.” – ⁦@RanaAyyub⁩ https://t.co/Mz23aZY4dk

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 13, 2021

To peddle her anti-Modi rhetorics, Sabrina Siddiqui shared a vicious article penned by Islamist Rana Ayyub in Washington Post, whereby the latter raked Shahrukh Khan’s Muslim id to insinuate that he and his son had been being victimised by the ‘anti-Muslim’ Modi authorities for his or her spiritual id.

Sabrina Siddiqui milked the farmers protest in India to berate Modi

Similarly, in February 2021, the WSJ journalist didn’t overlook to capitalise on the farmers’ protest in opposition to the Modi authorities over new farm legal guidelines. It shouldn’t be hidden how the farmer’s protest which was began underneath the guise of a peaceable demonstration in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines, took no time to devolve right into a breeding floor of kinds for every kind of prison actions. The 12-month-long protests had been overwhelmingly punctuated by incidents of chaos, rapes, murders, riots, vandalism and arson, as stressed protesters unleashed their prison tendencies. 

Various Khalistani organisations corresponding to Poetic Justice Foundation, Khalsa Aid and others actively partook within the protests, offering financial and emotional assist to the protesters of their calls for in opposition to the Centre. It can’t be discounted that the central purpose of those organisations was to stoke Khalistani sentiments among the many folks and characterise the Centre as in opposition to the pursuits of Sikhs. Even banned foreign-based organisations corresponding to Sikhs For Justice, a Khalistani outpost primarily based out of the United States, voiced their assist to the farmers, spurring them to proceed stirring anarchy underneath the pretext of finishing up peaceable protests in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines.

On November 19, 2021, PM Modi introduced that his authorities would take again the three farms after failing of their endeavour to persuade a piece of protesting farmers about its advantages. The announcement ought to have led farmer unions to name off the protests. Instead, they got here up with a contemporary set of calls for, warning the federal government that in the event that they don’t fulfil it, the protests would proceed unabated. 

Despite all the knowledge being out there on the general public platform, Sabrina Siddiqui went on to accuse the Modi Govt of not dealing with the farmers’ protest prudently. She tweeted, “Modi has drawn immense scrutiny for his handling of #FarmersProtests, Kashmir, treatment of religious minorities & crackdown on free speech. No specific mention of those issues in WH readout, but looks like some general prodding from Biden on democratc values and norms.”

Modi has drawn immense scrutiny for his dealing with of #FarmersProtests, Kashmir, remedy of non secular minorities & crackdown on free speech. No particular point out of these points in WH readout, however seems to be like some basic prodding from Biden on democratc values and norms. https://t.co/99Vi0zUjE9

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) February 8, 2021

These are only a few of the numerous anti-Modi tweets that we discovered on Sabrina Siddiqui’s Twitter timeline as we scrolled down, clearly showcasing her profound hate for Modi.

“Mr. Modi’s reputation among Muslims could broadly be compared to that of a Southern segregationist from the 1950s.” https://t.co/dSJLI4AJSJ

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) June 7, 2016

India’s rape drawback is so systemic it’s going to take generations to resolve. But it is as much as Modi to make it a precedence: http://t.co/b7E5qIEP2o

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) May 30, 2014

VP Kamala Harris spoke of the necessity to defend “democracy at home” and to “defend democratic principles and institutions” whereas assembly with Indian PM Narendra Modi, whose insurance policies have cracked down on human rights and free speech. pic.twitter.com/pMM2e0QpOk

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 23, 2021

Well, if one goes by Sabrina Siddiqui’s social media accounts rigorously, one would know that her political bias fairly evidently displays her cultural and spiritual bias. Siddiqui has many occasions prior to now clearly mirrored her anti-India and anti-Hindu sentiments by her posts. So going by her previous antecedents, it’s believable that Sabrina Siddiqui’s query to PM Modi through the joint press convention within the United States was not primarily based on any precise info however quite pushed by a sinister agenda to berate Modi and India on a world platform.