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Abdelbaki Sahraoui: what Wikipedia removed

Abdelbaki Sahraoui co-founded Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front and was assassinated in Paris in 1995. The 2010 opening said he “preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government,” and that he was killed by the Armed Islamic Group after opposing extending the jihad to France. Today’s opening says only that he co-founded the FIS, though jihad survives twice in the body. A reader today does not learn that he preached violent jihad or how and why he was killed.

The word “jihad” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • A reader no longer learns that Sahraoui preached violent jihad against the Algerian government, or that he opposed extending it to France before being assassinated.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17740177):

Abdelbaki Sahraoui was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria . He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926 , he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars’ Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government. He was assassinated in Paris on July 11 by the Armed Islamic Group , the GIA (although some question the authenticity of their statement claiming credit for thi…

2025 (revision 1290573551):

Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( Arabic : عبد الباقي صحرواي ) (August 25 1910 - July 11 1995) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria .

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