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

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