State officials were granted free rein to kill Muslims in 2002 Gujarat

Evidence

In Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, journalist Rana Ayyub observed how the bureaucrats, the police officers, and the people were given “a free hand to kill Muslims during the riots of 2002” by Modi himself. Eighteen years later, the Gujarat of 2002 would become the India of 2020. This time, the violence would happen on a national scale and had found an ally in the world’s most visible orchestrator of Islamophobia: Donald Trump. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 435

Categorization

• XREF: The Gujarat-to-India 2020 escalation aligns with the reader’s guiding question about state-level learning and scaling of anti-Muslim techniques — parallels the U.S. Muslim Ban trajectory Beydoun traces. — 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