India Hosts "Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer in New Delhi
Self-described "Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer was invited to speak this weekend at India Today Conclave, an annual conference sponsored by an Indian publication. Her speech focussed on what she called "Islamic Terrorism". She also apologized for anti-India racists X posts. To further please her Indian audience, she also engaged in Pakistan bashing. "Pakistan's biggest export to the world is Islamic terrorism, and I don't believe the US should be cozying up to the Pakistani government at all," she said.
Loomer is known to be very close to President Donald Trump. In her social media posts, she is also known for viciously attacking India and Indians almost as much as Muslims. But at the conference in Delhi, she apologized for her anti-India posts. She also deleted most or all such posts prior to showing up in India.
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| A Collage of Laura Loomer's anti-India Posts. Source: OpIndia |
Loomer has described Indians as “third-world invaders” and questioned their place in the United States, claiming that America was built by “white Europeans.” She also mocked India’s sanitation practices. In one of the widely shared X messages, she questioned why Indians “still [defecate] in the water they bathe and drink from,” while another post mocked Indian immigrants as so-called “high-skilled” workers who supposedly come from a country without basic facilities. In her posts, she has referred to the “rape culture” in India. She asserts that Indians have a low IQ of just 76.
India has just 5.75% of global Twitter users but the country accounts for 55% of all anti-Muslim tweets, according to a report entitled "Islamophobia in the Digital Age" published by the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) in 2022. It also found that the US, the UK, and India contributed a staggering 86% of anti-Muslim content on Twitter during a three-year period. It should be noted that both the US and the UK have a sizable Indian diaspora infected by hateful Hindutva ideology.
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| India Accounts For 55% of Islamophobic Tweets. Source: ICV |
India has only 23 million Twitter users, 5.75% of 400 million Twitter users worldwide, but Indians generate more than half of all Islamophobic tweets in the world. Numbers published in Twitter’s advertising resources indicate that Twitter had 3.40 million users in Pakistan in early 2022. ICV counted 15,766 Islamophobic tweets geolocated to Pakistan in a three year period.
Executives at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently told human rights groups that they wouldn’t release the full India Hate Speech study for their own security. An earlier 2020 company study concluded that Hindutva groups support violence against Muslims and Christians & should be banned from the platform, according to the Wall Street Journal. Here's an excerpt of the Wall Street Journal story:
"Meta has for years faced criticism from rights groups and has been probed by authorities regarding the presence of hate speech on its platforms in India, where more than 300 million people use Facebook and more than 400 million are on its WhatsApp messaging service. Meta has said it invests significantly in technology to find hate speech across languages in India. In 2020, Meta’s safety team concluded that a Hindu nationalist organization in India supported violence against minorities and likely qualified as an organization that should be banned from Facebook, the Journal reported that year. Facebook didn’t remove the group following internal security-team warnings that doing so might endanger both its business prospects and staff in India".
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Noting how “education in India is free” (which doesn’t actually stand true for college education), Loomer told moderators at the India Today Conclave 2026 that getting a degree in the US cost thousands of dollars. Speaking on behalf of “young Americans,” she suggested that their resentment towards foreign workers was justified especially since visa categories like H-1B tell them they’re “not the best and brightest.”
@AudreyTruschke
There's no way around the bitter reality -- The Loomer visit to India is a win for the racists.
Staging one audience comment, half-deleting tweets... None of that lands. What matters is that she used Indians, pushed Islamophobia, & got a stamp of approval from those she maligned
https://x.com/AudreyTruschke/status/2033187002808758494?s=20
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Rajdeep Sardesai
@sardesairajdeep
When spiteful racist language is used to target India and Indians, we get incensed. Yet when the same person resorts to the familiar ‘Islam is evil’ trope, we applaud. And forget that racism and communalism (and casteism) are cut from the same cloth of fear, prejudice, hatred and demonising the ‘other’. Now you know why it became so easy to divide and rule us?! Thank you for your attention 🙏
https://x.com/sardesairajdeep/status/2033190848008269984?s=20
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Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Laura Loomer flew to India.
Before she left she deleted all of her anti-Indian tweets. Thousands of them. Gone.
She thought nobody would notice.
An Indian uncle (Raj Sardesai) noticed.
He read them back to her on camera.
Every one. Her own words. Her own bigotry. Directed at the people whose country she was visiting as a guest.
This is the woman who has the personal cell phone number of the President of the United States.
This is the woman who shaped immigration policy from Mar-a-Lago.
She deleted the evidence before crossing the border.
The internet is forever.
The uncle is a hero.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2032864285563437350?s=20
@karimbitar
Translated from French
🇮🇳 "Ahmadabad, capital of the state of Gujarat, long led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has become, under the influence of Hindu nationalists, the most segregated city in India. A 'residential apartheid' visible in the Muslim neighborhood."
https://x.com/karimbitar/status/2038656036647706649?s=20
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A Juhapura, le plus grand ghetto musulman d’Inde : « Avant, on ne vivait pas à l’écart des hindous, on se mélangeait, on mangeait ensemble »
Par Sophie Landrin (Ahmedabad [Gujarat, Inde], envoyée spéciale)
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/03/30/a-juhapura-le-plus-grand-ghetto-musulman-d-inde-avant-on-ne-vivait-pas-a-l-ecart-des-hindous-on-se-melangeait-on-mangeait-ensemble_6675386_3210.html
French publication Le Monde story
describes the transformation of Juhapura, a neighborhood in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, which has evolved from a diverse area into what is now considered the largest Muslim "ghetto" in India.
Here is the translation of your text:
"In Juhapura, the largest Muslim ghetto in India: 'Before, we didn't live apart from the Hindus; we mixed, we ate together.'"
Context of the Transformation
To understand why this "mixing" stopped, it helps to look at the history of the area:
From Refugee Camp to Ghetto: Originally a resettlement site after the 1973 floods, Juhapura became a refuge for Muslims fleeing communal violence in 1985, 1992, and 2002.
The "Wagah Border": Residents often use this term to describe the physical concrete walls that now separate Juhapura from the neighboring Hindu area of Vejalpur.
A "Vertical" Ghetto: Unlike typical slums, Juhapura houses everyone from laborers to wealthy doctors and lawyers, because many Muslims—regardless of income—find it nearly impossible to buy or rent property in Hindu-majority parts of the city.
Legal Barriers: The Disturbed Areas Act in Gujarat makes it legally difficult for properties to be sold between members of different religious communities in certain zones, further cementing this segregation.