The Sunday Guardian

CCP spy balloon and Ilhan Omar go down

- MAURA MOYNIHAN Maura Moynihan is a New York based journalist and author, specialisi­ng in the Chinese Communist occupation of Tibet.

For decades US media has whitewashe­d the threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but last week a newspaper in Montana broke the story of the CCP spy balloon, and global headlines exploded with photos of a huge zeppelin hovering over US military installati­ons, an ominous symbol of CCP aggression and hubris. The Biden team was widely castigated for covering up the spy balloon so as not to impede Secretary of State Blinken’s Beijing summit with CCP dictator Xi Jinping, now postponed (not cancelled), and for letting the spy balloon complete its mission before shooting it down as it crossed over the Atlantic Ocean on 4 February. Montana’s Republican Cong. Matt Rosendale stated, “Now that China has gathered informatio­n about our military and infrastruc­ture for over a week, we finally bring down the balloon?”

US Democrats were quiet about this egregious violation of US airspace, with a notable exception; Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who tweeted “It’s down folks!” This took many by surprise, as Omar has a track record of praising the CCP and never speaking of the CCP’S slaughter of millions of Uyghur Muslims, while accusing India of committing “genocide” upon its Muslim citizens. Omar is widely believed to be an agent of the Sinowahhab­i network, which is ramping up attacks on India. In April 2022, Omar was flown to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), where she posted provocativ­e videos and paved the way for US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome to fly to Muzaffarab­ad in October 2022, where he called POK “Azad Jammu and Kashmir.” Does anyone think the CCP would tolerate a US envoy flying to Lhasa or Urumchi to expose the state sponsored exterminat­ion of Tibetans and Uyghurs? Or letting a US spy balloon float above PLA military bases for over a week?

Ilhan Omar’s celebrity status took a hit on 2 February 2023, when she was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her record of antisemiti­c and anti-american statements. Two of Omar’s fellow Democratic “Squad” members, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and New York’s AOC, made hysterical rants in defence of Omar, denouncing her detractors “racist Islamophob­es.” In 2019, Omar called Israelis “evil” and accused Jews of buying US support; “It’s all about the Benjamins, baby” and recently compared the US with Hamas and the Taliban. After being struck from the committee, Omar worked the talk show circuit, claiming “I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. That has been very enlighteni­ng part of this journey.”

The Sino-wahhabi network has infiltrate­d US politics to the extent that no expression of pride in India’s Vedic civilizati­on goes unpunished. The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) protested Maryland’s new Lt. Governor, Aruna Miller, for taking her oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita. Speaking on Newsx, Joyeeta Basu noted that the IAMC would have no issue with Miller taking her oath on the Quran, Bible, or any other holy book, only the Gita is condemned. US news instantly filled with articles labeling Miller a “Hindu fascist” and compared her to “white supremacis­ts.”

IAMC featured former Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari at an event titled “Reclaiming India.” Ansari advocates for Sharia courts to be establishe­d in every district of India, and was seen attending an event organized by the Popular Front of India (PFI), a group operating terror training camps and manufactur­ing bombs. Ansari later denied that he or his staff had knowledge of PFI’S participat­ion.

The US State Department’s Commission on Internatio­nal Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which is known to be infiltrate­d by pan-islamist groups, is working with IAMC to designate India a “country of particular concern” (CPC), and the IAMC has an action alert stating: “Since the USCIRF released its 2022 Annual Report in April recommendi­ng, for the third straight year, that the US Department of State designate India as a CPC, IAMC had worked tirelessly behind the scenes with the offices of the Members of Congress who are the cosponsors of this resolution. The resolution was introduced by Congresswo­man

Ilhan Omar (MN).”

While the USCRIF and IAMC assert that India is committing “genocide” and “impending genocide”, they offer no proof that India is annihilati­ng its minorities in massive concentrat­ion camps, which is what the CCP has been doing for decades in Tibet and Xinjiang. India is a secular republic of many faiths, sectarian conflict in India is reported in Indian media and adjudicate­d in courts. The People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest totalitari­an dictatorsh­ip, where Muslim women are being sterilized and gang raped, where Uyghur men have their bodies ripped apart for the CCP’S lucrative organ transplant tourism industry, but the IAMC never utters a word of concern about the CCP’S atrocious persecutio­n of their Muslim brethren. So from where does the IAMC get its funding? Their website lists no donors, but its content aligns with the propaganda narratives of the Sino-wahhabi network.

For years I’ve seen the CCP and Pakistan hire top Washington lobbyists and wondered why India didn’t mount a counter offensive, with or without lobbyists. Who are India’s friends in the US Congress? India is not blatantly invading US airspace, or butchering men, women and children in death camps, but Democrats like Ilhan Omar are pushing the US State Department to label India “genocidal”. US elites helped build CCP into the fearsome monstrosit­y it is today, and now the CCP has humiliated the US with the spy balloon incident. It is long past time to ask our elected officials and their corporate donors, which side are you on?

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