The Gujarat pogrom’s accused leader Modi became India’s prime minister

Evidence

“My cousin was murdered during the Gujarat massacres.” Abdul, an Indian American engineer from Houston, recalled the bloody pogrom of 2002, pointing to the picture of Narendra Modi on his computer screen. “This man is responsible for his death, and all the deaths that took place there years ago. Now, he’s prime minister of India.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 428

Categorization

• XREF: Direct parallel to the reader’s broader thesis: the person states and voters legitimize for anti-Muslim violence ascending to power.