State inaction during anti-Muslim mob violence functions as tacit approval

Evidence

Modi stood idly by as the city burned and Muslim citizens were assailed. His “failure” to reign in the mobs and stop the massacre was perceived by many beyond India, and even more within, as approval. Mira Kamdar, an expert on modern Indian politics, concluded in a compelling article written in the early stages of the violence that “what happened in Delhi was a pogrom.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 453

Categorization

• XREF: State complicity through deliberate inaction parallels the US-state facilitation of Islamophobic hate Beydoun documents domestically, strengthening the shared-logic thread.