March 15, 2026
Indians in uproar over go to of far-right US activist Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer, an American far-right activist and staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump, stirred sturdy reactions on Saturday when she visited India for a media conclave.
Loomer, who has usually made derogatory remarks towards Indians on social media, was invited to TV information channel India Immediately’s conclave in New Delhi as a speaker. The subject? “Demise to Islamic Terrorism: The Trump Strategy.”
The information of her go to to India has social media hounds dig up her previous posts on the X platform, previously Twitter, calling Indians “invaders” and accusing them of exploiting the “American Dream” which, in keeping with her, was constructed by white Europeans, amongst different posts involving derogatory racial stereotypes.
On the occasion, Loomer mentioned: “I mustn’t have mentioned among the issues I wrote within the different tweets,” but additionally stood by her opposition to the H-1B visa program, which has been utilized by many US tech corporations using Indian staff and which has been topic to controversial modifications by Trump’s administration.
Loomer was confronted by Indian veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai who mentioned her feedback “smacked of anti-Indianism, worse nonetheless Islamophobia, and even worse, racism, which has no place in as we speak’s world.”
In a while social media, Loomer alleged Sardesai “attacked” her for talking what she described because the “fact about Islam.”
She doubled down on the Islamophobic feedback, accusing journalists of pandering to “Pakistani terrorists” and never doing sufficient to battle for “the survival of the bulk Hindu inhabitants of India.”
Hindus make up practically 80% of the inhabitants of India, which has additionally been house to substantial Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain populations for hundreds of years.
Lately, right-wing ultranationalist teams have been more and more loud of their calls to declare India a Hindu nation and enshrine Hindu dominance in legislation.
Authorities critics have argued that the rhetoric has been a serious driver of elevated sectarian tensions and clashes.
