A pogrom against Muslims unfolded in New Delhi while Trump and Modi met
Evidence
With no irony whatsoever, Modi allegedly began to tell Trump about the historical significance of Gandhi’s peaceful teachings on nonviolence while—at exactly the same time outside in the streets of New Delhi—a violent bloody anti-Muslim pogrom massacre was literally taking place. So while Trump and Modi were inside enjoying their right-wing bromance, global audiences worldwide watched in horror as TV cameras captured dramatic footage of baton-wielding New Delhi police officers and vigilante Hindu mobs targeting Muslims in India’s capital city, leaving at least forty-seven people murdered on the streets of New Delhi. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 191
Categorization
- XREF: Trump’s embrace of Modi directly evidences the author’s capstone thesis of a global right-wing Islamophobic order spanning the US and South Asia. — connects to: Islamophobia predates Trump by centuries as a state-backed system — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 79; Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485; COVID compounded state violence against Delhi’s Muslims (+2 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 191
Related
- COVID compounded state violence against Delhi’s Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
- Trump and Modi’s joint rallies presaged violence against India’s Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- The Trump-Modi visit directly precipitated three weeks of New Delhi violence (similarity 0.81)
- Modi’s political rise remains tied to the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Modi personally incited the 2002 Gujarat massacre that killed at least 800 Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Modi’s Gujarat violence foreshadowed erasing India’s secularist commitment. (similarity 0.80)
- Trump and Modi’s rhetoric directly fomented anti-Muslim riots in New Delhi. (similarity 0.80)
- Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim mob violence killed over fifty-three people (similarity 0.80)
- Indian Muslims frame Islamophobia as a newly contracted national disease (similarity 0.79)
- India’s NRC parallels both Trump’s Muslim Registry and Nuremberg laws (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Modi’s India serves as a laboratory for virulent Islamophobia
#exemplifies(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 485 - COVID compounded state violence against Delhi’s Muslims
#corroborates(0.55) - India’s NRC parallels both Trump’s Muslim Registry and Nuremberg laws
#expands(0.40) - India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 exceeded Trump’s Muslim Ban in restrictiveness
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