Trump and Modi’s rhetoric directly fomented anti-Muslim riots in New Delhi.

Evidence

While Trump declared that both India and the United States have to “defend ourselves from the threat of radical Islamic terrorism” and the two heads of state embraced inside the walled-off stadium, the city surrounding it was beginning to burn with rage. A rage it sourced from within that stadium and swiftly unleashed onto the 2 million Muslims in New Delhi. A rage that felt like the Gujarat riots of 2002 all over again, helmed by the very man who gave everybody a “free hand to kill Muslims.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 447

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