Al-Fourqaan mosque: what Wikipedia removed
The Al-Fourqaan mosque in Eindhoven was reported to have young men recruited by the Algerian terrorist group Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat, and drew attention for its jihadist imam. Earlier snapshots said men were “reportedly recruited by Algerian terrorist group Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat to fight in the holy war,” and that the mosque drew media attention “for its jihadist imam.” Today’s opening describes only a Salafi mosque established in the 1990s, with no mention of the GSPC recruitment or the jihadist imam; the word survives four times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the mosque was reported to be linked to a designated terrorist group’s recruitment or that it had a jihadist imam who drew intelligence attention.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A reformatting of the mosque’s geographic coordinates, unrelated to the terrorism content.
- The account of the mosque drawing media attention for its jihadist imam, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 611790384):
51°27′12″N 5°28′09″E / 51.453429°N 5.469222°E / 51.453429; 5.469222 The Al-Fourqaan mosque is a salafi Islamic mosque in which is part of Al-fourqaan Islamic Center in Eindhoven , Netherlands . The mosque received media attention since 2005 for its jihadist imam Eisha Bersham from Bosnia . Intelligence service AIVD classified him as a threat to national security, and minister for integration and immigration Rita Verdonk responded by banning him from the country as an ‘unwanted foreigner’. Initially an Amsterdam court ruled that the imam could stay, but on 27 April 2007 the Council of State finally ruled Bersham would be banned from the Netherlands for the next ten …
2025 (revision 1295104498):
Mosque in Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands The Al-Fourqaan mosque is a Salafi Islamic mosque in which is part of Al-fourqaan Islamic Center in Eindhoven , Netherlands , established in the 1990s. ^ Vellenga, Sipco; De Groot, Kees (2019-03-26). “Securitization, Islamic chaplaincy, and the issue of (de)radicalization of Muslim detainees in Dutch prisons” . Social Compass . 66 (2). SAGE Publications: 224– 237. doi : 10.1177/0037768619833313 . ISSN 0037-7686 .
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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