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— Two days ago, on Monday, May 17, a mosque in the central UP town of Barabanki was demolished by the administration in defiance of an order of the Allahabad high court. The Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof Mosque had been around for at least six decades,...1/n
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according to electricity bills held by its committee members, and was registered with the UP Sunni Waqf Board. "They demolished our century-old mosque. Thousands of people used to offer namaz here,” Maulana Abdul Mustafa, a mosque committee member said. #RebuildGhareebNawazMasjid
— But there is a backstory to the demolition which explains the relative ease with which this act of erasure planned several months ago was eventually accomplished...3/n
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