Wahhabi destruction of shrines in Arabia outraged Indian Muslims

Evidence

During the early nineteenth century, the Arabian Wahhabis conquered the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, where they destroyed religious tombs and shrines, which they considered un-Islamic forms of idolatry, deeply offending the religious sensibilities of many Muslims in India. — Julia Stephens, The Phantom Wahhabi, 30

Categorization

• CANDY: Compact and vivid: a label’s guilt-by-association rests on a real event 3,000 miles away that most people have never connected.