White House exposes its personal hypocrisy by defending Sabrina Siddiqui

Days after netizens questioned Pakistani-origin American ‘journalist’ Sabrina Siddiqui for insinuating that the rights of Muslims and different minorities are below risk in India, the White House got here out in her defence on Monday (June 26)

Siddiqui, who works for The Wall Street Journal, tried to undermine the India-US relationship through the joint press convention of President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the White House.

She requested a politically motivated query to the Indian Prime Minister within the hopes of reinforcing the distorted narrative of Muslims being ‘under attack in India.’ Despite a befitting reply by PM Modi, Indian social media customers have been aghast at Siddiqui for peddling her sinister agenda.

#WATCH | “We are a democracy…India & America each have democracy in our DNA. Democracy is in our spirit & we reside it and it is written in our Constitution…So no query of discrimination on the grounds of caste, creed or faith arises. That is why, India believes in sabka… pic.twitter.com/orVkCVkLLf

— ANI (@ANI) June 22, 2023

The criticism directed at her additional intensified when the likes of Alt News co-founder tried to go her off as an ‘Indian’ primarily based on the truth that she is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, one of many earliest proponents of the two-nation concept.

Her ancestry and ‘identity’ have been known as into query when she tried to venture herself as a ‘patriotic Indian’, primarily based on her assist for the Indian cricket staff. This was regardless of being born within the United States to a Pakistani mom and an Indian father, who was raised in Pakistan.

On being confronted with legit questions for peddling the doubtful’ Muslims below assault in India’ narrative, Sabrina Siddiqui cried foul over the matter.

Since some have chosen to make a degree of my private background, it feels solely proper to offer a fuller image. Sometimes identities are extra advanced than they appear. pic.twitter.com/Huxbmm57q8

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) June 24, 2023

The Wall Street Journal and its scribes additionally threw their weight behind Sabrina Siddiqui, presenting the social media criticism as a case of ‘press freedom’ and supposed harassment of ‘Muslim journalist.’

NEW: The White House is pushing again forcefully towards those that are harassing @SabrinaSiddiqui for asking PM Modi a good and simple query about human rights final week.

NSC’s John Kirby calls it “completely unacceptable” and antithetical to Democracy

— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) June 26, 2023

During a press briefing on Monday (June 26), Senior White House Correspondent (NBC News) Kelly O’Donnell claimed, “At the question-and-answer event with the president and Prime Minister Modi, our colleague, Sabrina Siddiqui of The Wall Street Journal, asked a question of the prime minister and since that time she has been subjected to some intense online harassment from people inside India.”

“Some of them are politicians, and they have associations with the Modi government. And in part, they’ve been targeting her because of her Muslim faith and questioning her own heritage,” she alleged.

Kelly O’Donnell additional added, “Because this was imagined to be about democracy in some type, wished to search out out: what’s the White House response to the truth that a journalist posing a query to a Democratic chief is getting that type of pushback?

Here’s John Kirby’s full feedback, in response to a query from @KellyO pic.twitter.com/gHsL5Y7u1E

— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) June 26, 2023

John Kirby, who serves because the Coordinator for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council (NSC) within the White House, agreed to the claims of the NBC News correspondent.

He remarked, “We’re aware of the reports of that harassment. It’s unacceptable, and we absolutely condemn any harassment of journalists anywhere under any circumstances.” “

“That’s just, that’s completely unacceptable, and it’s antithetical to the very principles of democracy that that you’re right, we’re on display last week, during the state visit,” Kirby additional claimed.

Problem with the White House’s response & antics of Wall Street Journal

The sweeping assertion of the White House makes an attempt to label criticism, aimed toward Sabrina Siddiqui for the advantage of her politically motivated query, as ‘harassment of journalist.’

It fails to acknowledge the considerations that Indian netizens raised in regards to the WSJ journalist’s selection of query. It additionally fails to deal with the apprehensions that Indians harbour in the direction of leftist Western publications reminiscent of The Wall Street Journal resulting from their continued and focused anti-India propaganda.

In February 2020, the American each day falsely claimed that the frenzied mob, which murdered Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma through the 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi riots, was chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram.’ WSJ misquoted the deceased’s brother Ankur Sharma to make the deceptive claims.

Multiple eyewitnesses had corroborated that the deceased was dragged by an enraged Muslim mob from inside the home of AAP chief Mohammad Tahir Hussain and subsequently killed by them.

In dialog with PBNS, Ankur Sharma, Brother of killed IB official discredited @WSJ report, “I never gave such a statement to Wall Street Journal. This is a ploy to defame my brother and my family. Wall Street Journal is lying.”#DelhiViolence pic.twitter.com/0peViwzkjE

— Prasar Bharati News Services & Digital Platform (@PBNS_India) February 28, 2020

In December of that yr, The Wall Street Journal revealed a pretend report claiming that Facebook didn’t act towards Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), regardless of deeming its content material as offensive.

In March 2021, the American newspaper was pulled up for falsely reporting that the Indian authorities had threatened staff of Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter with jail phrases.

In October final yr, WSJ carried a full-page commercial, urging the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and ten different Indians. It is thus apparent that Indians will critically analyse the pursuits of a journalist, related to such a newspaper.

Newspaper commercial by Ramachandran Viswanathan

The antics of Sabrina Siddiqui through the joint press convention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden made issues worse. She clearly confirmed that she actually didn’t have one of the best pursuits of India at coronary heart.

The Pakistani-origin journalist cunningly raked up the problem of the ‘treatment of Muslims and minorities in India’ to offer the impression that these teams are being ill-treated right here. This narrative is part of the bigger leftist-Islamist creativeness of ‘‘Dara hua Musalman.’’

Sabrina Siddiqui tried her greatest to bitter the press convention with an ill-intentioned query and thus drew the ire of the Indian public. She is now being supported by the likes of Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), recognized for its ties with radical outfit Jamaat-e-Islami.

Screengrab of the tweet by Indian American Muslim Council

The White House is now lashing out on the Indian public and mouthing platitudes on free speech and democracy. Interestingly, the incumbent US President Joe Biden had humiliated journalists on a number of events (to the extent of calling a Fox News journalist – the son of a bitch).

While the White House didn’t bat an eye fixed then, it’s now getting labored up over common Indian residents questioning the motives of a Pakistani-origin American journalist.