Awkward second for Laura Loomer as her deleted anti-Indian tweets are learn again to her throughout her journey to New Delhi | EUROtoday

Laura Loomer, a right-wing social media character and adviser to President Donald Trump, was compelled to clarify herself throughout a visit to New Delhi when a journalist learn her anti-Indian tweets again to her throughout an occasion.

During the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday, Indian journalist Rajdeep Sardesai offered a trove of tweets Loomer made disparaging India and its individuals. Loomer’s posts had been deleted earlier than her go to, however not earlier than others archived them.

Loomer instructed the convention that she had simply spoken to Trump and browse out a message she claimed was from the president.

“I love India. I love Modi and I love the Indian people,” the message reportedly mentioned.

The hosts of the occasion pressed Loomer on controversial statements she has made about Islam previously. Approximately 15 % of India’s inhabitants — roughly 205 million individuals — are Muslim.

Nevertheless, Loomer mentioned she believes that “Islam is a cancer on the world” and that she doesn’t “believe that Islamophobia is real.”

“I believe that it should be illegal in the United States for Muslims to hold office,” she mentioned.

Before her tweets have been offered again to her on the occasion in New Delhi, she was requested about disparaging remarks she had made about India previously. She instantly backed down, saying ‘I should not have mentioned among the issues that I mentioned … and I apologize if my remarks offended individuals.”

She did maintain her criticism of the H-1B visa program — which many Indian nationals have used to gain entry into the U.S. — saying her views are intended to protect the American people.

“My job is to talk for Americans and to face up for American pursuits, and our immigration legal guidelines have been exploited and abused, and our labor legal guidelines have additionally been exploited and abused,” she said.

Near the end of the discussion, Sardesai, who works for India Today, confronted Loomer on her previous statements about India.

He read a post from 2024 in which Loomer said the White House would “scent like curry” if then-Vice President Kamala Harris became president. She also said that the U.S. was built by “white Europeans, not third-world invaders from India.”

The journalist went on to accuse Loomer of being “overtly racist and Islamophobic” and told her her comments represented “anti-Indianism, worse nonetheless Islamophobia, and even worse racism,” which he said had “no place in in the present day’s world.”

Loomer insisted Islamophobia wasn’t real, claiming the faith “explicitly requires the killing of non-Muslims.” She insisted that “everybody who is not a Muslim should really honestly be fearful of this ideology.”

She also claimed her comments regarding Harris were actually “pro-Indian,” saying they were a critique of Harris allegedly downplaying her Indian heritage during the election and instead emphasizing her Black heritage to win over voters.

It doesn’t seem as though Loomer is going to change her tune anytime soon. On Saturday afternoon she shared a video allegedly showing Muslims in India surrounding a Sikh restaurant and demanding they sell halal food.

“Islam has no place within the West. Are you comfortable with this @sardesairajdeep? Should Muslims be allowed to terrorize Sikhs who refuse to promote halal meals? Are you going to name the Sikhs Islamophobic and racist too?” she wrote in her post.

Loomer is one of many MAGA personalities — including lawmakers — who have attacked Islam. The ramp-up in rhetoric appears to have coincided with Trump’s war in Iran. Shortly after the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, a series of violent attacks occurred in the U.S. — in Texas, Virginia, and Michigan — that the FBI are treating as possibly motivated by the war.

Senator Tommy Tuberville was accused of Islamophobia earlier this week when he shared an image of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani breaking his Ramadan fast in City Hall alongside an image of the 9/11 terror attacks and wrote “the enemy is contained in the gates.”

The Independent has contacted Loomer for remark.