The chant Jai Shri Ram became a recognized signal of impending anti-Muslim violence

Evidence

Around the periphery of the mosque, Hindu extremists armed with weapons, and others brandishing only bare fists, shouted the Hindu nationalist slogan “Jai Shri Ram” as their feet pounded the pavement. This chant signaled, for Muslims who heard it, that violence was coming their way. And that violence came in droves. In the India remade by Modi, those words were not only a spiritual chant for a Hindu deity, but also the “three most polarizing words in India,” which could signal anti-Muslim violence. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 475

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• DEFINE: Explains the dual register of a chant that functions as both devotional slogan and violence signal.
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• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 475