Tag: US congresswoman Ilhan Omar

WASHINGTON : US congresswoman Ilhan Omar pressed one of President Joe Biden's most senior diplomats on Wednesday on US support for India given what she said is a long-standing campaign against the country's Muslim minority. Omar, who is Muslim, directly asked Wendy Sherman, Biden's deputy secretary of state, how US support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is "promoting a free and open region," and lambasted what she characterized as a reluctance to openly criticize his government. "How much does the Modi administration have to criminalize the act of being...