Trump and Modi’s joint appearance directly sparked three weeks of anti-Muslim riots in Delhi

Evidence

Trump and Modi stood side by side and affirmed their nations’ commitments to each other. Their words reverberated through the cricket stadium, but the symbol of the world’s two most prominent Islamophobes—locking hands—was far more powerful than anything they could utter. … The coming together of Modi and Trump, the world’s two chief Islamophobes, incited an immediate storm that ripped through the streets of New Delhi, gripped it for nearly three weeks, and left Muslim families and communities in shambles. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 472

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the causal chain — did the Delhi riots begin immediately after their joint rally, and is the link direct or rhetorical?