The 2002 Gujarat violence became a template scaled nationally by 2020
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
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- State officials were granted free rein to kill Muslims in 2002 Gujarat (similarity 0.93)
- Prior riots shaped Gujarat into a template of violence for later pogroms (similarity 0.86)
- Modi personally incited the 2002 Gujarat massacre that killed at least 800 Muslims (similarity 0.84)
- Modi’s 2002 Gujarat violence recurred in Delhi in 2020 (similarity 0.84)
- Modi incited violent mobs to massacre Muslims in 2002 Gujarat (similarity 0.83)
- Modi’s Gujarat violence foreshadowed erasing India’s secularist commitment. (similarity 0.82)
- Trump and Modi’s rhetoric directly fomented anti-Muslim riots in New Delhi. (similarity 0.82)
- The Trump-Modi visit directly precipitated three weeks of New Delhi violence (similarity 0.82)
- The 2002 Gujarat massacre killed at least 800 Muslims, likely more (similarity 0.81)
- Modi’s political rise remains tied to the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Trump and Modi’s joint rallies presaged violence against India’s Muslims (similarity 0.81)
- Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim mob violence killed over fifty-three people (similarity 0.79)
- The 2002 Gujarat pogrom killed over two thousand Muslims and displaced 150,000. (similarity 0.79)
- Gujarat riot targeting techniques were repeated in Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom (similarity 0.79)
- America’s War on Terror helped legitimize Modi’s rise. (similarity 0.79)