Militants frame mosque destruction as purifying humiliation and unifying their nation.

Evidence

In Pune, Hindu militants who had just returned from Ayodhya told Thomas Blom Hansen about the symbolic importance of the mosque’s destruction: In Ayodhya the excitement was tremendous. Everybody felt this is the foundation of the Hindu nation. It happened because what was happening to Hindus had to be washed off. So many of our leaders had been insulted and so much wrong had been done to us. It had to stop somewhere. Whatever has been done [in Ayodhya] was to bring together the Hindus and show them how outsiders are violating them and their country. Once the Hindu power is established … the Muslims will be shown their place. (Hansen 1999, 118) The dispute continued into the twenty-first century, with militant Hindu leaders frequently vowing to build (or, as they insisted, rebuild) their temple on the Babri Masjid site. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 414

Categorization

• XREF: The rhetoric of past grievance and ‘washing off’ insult is the perpetrator’s own account of a repertoire—useful for the reader’s question about whether institutional-absorption explanations handle genuinely aggrieved dominant groups who see themselves as victims of outsiders. — connects to: Attacks on the veil aimed to dismantle Islam as nationalist resistance glue.; The same national monuments are menacing to Muslims who are their targets — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 84; Hatred unifies with its object through destruction, mirroring reconciliation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159 (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 414

Broader Connections

• Hatred unifies with its object through destruction, mirroring reconciliation. #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159
• Attacks on the veil aimed to dismantle Islam as nationalist resistance glue. #corroborates (0.78)
• Muslim hostility to the West grew from humiliation and Western self-discrediting wars. #expands (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1581
• The same national monuments are menacing to Muslims who are their targets #exemplifies (0.74) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 84
• Militants engineered revenge attacks to fabricate proof of ethnic incompatibility #corroborates (0.73) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 211
• A national humiliation on home soil transformed quickly into a manic embrace of defeat #expands (0.73) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 537
• Crusade rhetoric centered on resentment over churches converted into mosques. #expands (0.72) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 628