In Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up, journalist Rana Ayyub observed how the bureaucrats, the police officers, and the people were given "a free hand to kill Muslims during the riots of 2002" by Modi himself. Eighteen years later, the Gujarat of 2002 would become the India of 2020. This time, the violence would happen on a national scale and had found an ally in the world's most visible orchestrator of Islamophobia: Donald Trump.

XREF: Connects the Gujarat riots of 2002 to the 2020 Delhi riots and broader national violence, spanning an 18-year arc. QUESTION: Worth verifying Ayyub's specific claim about Modi granting a free hand, and the evidence linking Trump as an orchestrator of Islamophobia.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 435