Prior riots shaped Gujarat into a template of violence for later pogroms
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
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Introduces the ‘template of violence’ concept — past riots become a learned playbook for future communal violence.
Related
- Modi incited violent mobs to massacre Muslims in 2002 Gujarat (similarity 0.87)
- The 2002 Gujarat violence became a template scaled nationally by 2020 (similarity 0.86)
- State officials were granted free rein to kill Muslims in 2002 Gujarat (similarity 0.82)
- Modi personally incited the 2002 Gujarat massacre that killed at least 800 Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Modi’s Gujarat violence foreshadowed erasing India’s secularist commitment. (similarity 0.80)
- Modi’s political rise remains tied to the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims (similarity 0.80)
- Modi’s 2002 Gujarat violence recurred in Delhi in 2020 (similarity 0.78)
- The Gujarat pogrom’s accused leader Modi became India’s prime minister (similarity 0.78)
- Gujarat riot targeting techniques were repeated in Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom (similarity 0.78)