Aly Hindy: what Wikipedia removed
Aly Hindy is the imam of a Toronto mosque the National Post once called a “radical mosque.” Through 2015 the opening said he was “notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism.” Today the word survives once in the body but is gone from the opening, which now carries only the National Post’s “radical mosque” label with no explanation of why. A reader today learns a newspaper called his mosque radical and does not learn that he was noted for defending Canadians accused of terrorism.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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”- This dropped both his noted defense of Canadians accused of terrorism and his description as a friend of the Khadr family, details absent from today’s opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 337835485):
Aly Hindy is the current Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Canada , notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism. A noted friend of the Khadr family , Hindy immigrated to Canada in 1975 after graduating in Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt . He spent the next four years studying at the University of Western Ontario , where he received his Doctorate in structural engineering. He worked for Stone & Webster for two years, before starting his 21-year career as a safety engineer for Ontario Hydro . According to the 2005 interrogation of Abdullah Khadr in Pakistan, Hindy…
2025 (revision 1171393751):
Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto , Ontario, Canada once called “Toronto’s million-dollar radical mosque” by the National Post . ^ “Salaheddin Islamic Centre: Toronto’s million-dollar ‘radical mosque’ | National Post” . Nationalpost . Feb 17, 2012 . Retrieved Feb 26, 2019 . ^ Freeze, Colin. The Globe and Mail , Arar case began amid fear of attack on Ottawa , January 16, 2004 ^ “Toronto’s million-dollar ‘radical mosque’ ” . National Post . Retrieved 2016-09-09 .
Related
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- The live article on Wikipedia
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