https://m.himalmag.com/a-tale-of-two-mosques/
>This had not been a lone incident in Rampur-Bairiya. In one previous incident, during the marriage of the daughter of a lower-caste Muslim family, the bridegroom made the grievous mistake of arriving at the wedding in a Maruti car, a clear symbol of status in the backward village economy. In so doing, he drove through a street along which lived upper-caste Muslims. Pandemonium subsequently broke out as henchmen of the upper-caste community members attacked the wedding guests, and mixed mud into the food. To top it off, it was not the perpetrators that were later harassed by the police, but rather the victims themselves. It turned out that the local inspector was an upper-caste Muslim himself.
>A subsequent interview with the alleged architect of the Rampur-Bairiya mosque episode is telling. When the reporter asked his name, he replied “Mohammad Idrees”. But he was immediately interrupted by one of his female relatives standing nearby. “Why don’t you add Syed before your name?” she asked. Interestingly, later in the article, this same woman, when speaking of members of the Ansari community, kept addressing them with the derogatory term julaha (ignorant). During the subsequent conversation, Syed Idrees said: “We belong to the Syed Biradari [caste], which is just like the Brahmins of the Muslim community. Where does the question of our equality with them arise?’
