Modi incited violent mobs to massacre Muslims in 2002 Gujarat

Evidence

Gujarat had witnessed explosive riots in the recent past, and those had bled into the identity of the state and shaped a “template of violence” for future agitators to emulate. A year after the War on Terror commenced, violent mobs in Gujarat were incited by no other than Narendra Modi, who was chief minister of the state during the massacre. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 430

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice’ only loosely; stronger tie to the global Islamophobia synthesis the reader wants alongside Iftikhar.
• XREF: connects to: State and police complicity marked the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 521; Gujarat’s 2002 anti-Muslim violence was state-orchestrated and electorally rewarded — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 696