https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/opinions/akanksha-singh-trump-modi/index.html
When President Trump wrapped up his two-day visit to India in February and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India's "religious freedom" following Hindu-Muslim riots in parts of the capital, it didn't just feel like Indian democracy was crumbling further; it felt as though it had got the go ahead from a global superpower.
Given the divisive turn India has taken under Modi's leadership, Trump's support for Modi — offered, as it is, without much qualification and without any criticism — sends a dangerous signal that the US doesn't have any problems with his ethno-nationalist politics.
Muslims were specifically singled out, their houses torched, their livelihoods destroyed, and their lives threatened — just like they had been, years before, when Modi was Gujarat's chief minister. Modi was, after all, the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when Hindu-Muslim riots broke out under his watch in 2002.
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