Trump and Modi’s joint rallies presaged violence against India’s Muslims

Evidence

September 22, 2019, in Texas was a raucous reminder, for Abdul and the world at large, that the fate of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 would be sowed against Muslims throughout the body of the nation. Another reminder would take place not in Houston, but in India’s capital, New Delhi, where Modi and Trump would share an even bigger stage at one of the world’s largest outdoor arenas, then called Motera Cricket Stadium and now renamed Narendra Modi Stadium, a standing shrine for the horror that unfolded in the days to come. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 446

Categorization

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