A public dispute erupted between British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan and far-right activist Laura Loomer over Vice President JD Vance‘s remarks about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s aunt.
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The controversy began when Vance mocked Mamdani’s emotional statement—made outside a mosque and surrounded by imams—about his aunt’s fear of riding the subway in a hijab after $9/11$. Vance suggested the remarks painted Mamdani’s aunt as the “real victim of $9/11$.”
Journalist Mehdi Hasan condemned Vance for “publicly mocking other Brown people” despite being married to Indian-origin Usha Vance and having mixed-race children.
In response, Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted Hasan’s criticism, making a distinction based on religion. Loomer pointed out that Vance’s wife is not a Muslim, but an “accomplished Hindu American.”
“If she was, he never would have been Vice President because MAGA isn’t going to ever support a Muslim being in the White House,” Loomer posted on X, adding, “Our issue isn’t with Brown people; it’s with Islam.”
This is not the first clash between the two. Loomer previously attacked Hasan by calling him a Muslim immigrant and telling him to “go back to the UK and the Islamic countries your parents were born in.” Hasan corrected her, stating that his parents were born in India, which “is not an ‘Islamic country’.”
