India, Sept. 30 -- Mehdi Hasan, the Indian-origin broadcaster and founder of media company Zeteo, engaged in a war of words with American right wing political activist Laura Loomer on X. The hostile exchange began on September 28, when Hasan posted about a shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan that left at least four people dead.

"An AR-15, an American flag, and a mass shooting. Nothing more American than that, I guess," wrote Mehdi Hasan, a journalist who holds dual citizenship of the US and UK.

Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and supporter of US President Donald Trump, took issue with Hasan's post. She asked him why he was in the United States if he "hated" it here. She also labelled him a Muslim immigrant and told him to "go bac...