Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim mob violence killed over fifty-three people

Evidence

Shortly after Trump left India, the mobs burned the homes of Muslims to the ground. They desecrated and destroyed longstanding mosques. They violently accosted elders and Muslim women wearing the hijab while walking with children in their very own neighborhoods. They raged and rioted, ransacked and ripped through anything and everything that appeared to be Muslim. When all was said and done, Hindu extremists had killed more than fifty-three people and maimed thousands more. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 452

Categorization

• QUESTION: Need to reconcile death-toll figures and timeframe reported here versus independent documentation of the February 2020 Delhi riots.
• XREF: The mob violence following Trump’s visit supports Beydoun’s broader thesis that US Islamophobic leadership emboldens allied leaders — links to Iftikhar’s global synthesis reading.