Modi rewarded rhetoric that incited mob violence against Indian Muslims

Evidence

Adityanath, who makes explicit what Modi guises in dog whistles, also stated, “If they [Muslims] kill one Hindu man, then we will kill 100 Muslim men.” It was precisely because of this rhetoric that Modi handpicked Adityanath to govern Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state. Rhetoric that regularly incited mob violence against the state’s Muslims and vigilante attacks on its mosques, Muslim businesses, and communities. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 402

Categorization

• XREF: The disproportionality of the threat (‘kill 100 for one’) echoes classic collective-punishment logic seen in colonial and racial violence; a strong cross-case analytic thread. — connects to: Gujarat’s 2002 anti-Muslim violence was state-orchestrated and electorally rewarded — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 696