In the Name of God focuses on the campaign waged by the militant Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to destroy a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, said to have been built by Babar, the first Mughal Emperor of India. The VHP claim the mosque was built at the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram over a razed Hindu temple. Filmed prior to the mosque’s demolition in 1992 and the subsequent religious violence that has displaced thousands of Muslims and claimed more than 5,000 lives in India and Pakistan, In the Name of God examines the motivations of the Hindu militants as well as the efforts of secular Indians to combat the religious intolerance and hatred that has seized India in recent years.