At the time, Modi was serving as chief minister (de facto political leader) for the western Indian state of Gujarat. During his watch as Gujarat's top government official, Narendra Modi stood silently as over a thousand-plus innocent Gujarati Muslims were brutally massacred by pitchfork-carrying anti-Muslim vigilante mobs. These carefully planned genocidal attacks of unprecedented savagery against Gujarat's six million-plus Muslim community still remain a collective trauma for nearly two hundred million Indian Muslims even today.

QUESTION: The specific historical circumstances and degree of Modi's complicity remain contested; worth verifying against multiple accounts before relying on this characterization.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 183