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Council on American–Islamic Relations: what Wikipedia removed

The 2015 opening carried the UAE’s terrorist designation of CAIR. Today’s opening carries no terror-family word at all; the body uses them 78 times.

The word “terror” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 78. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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terror2044200
islamist1011100

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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  • The introduction has grown friendlier with each rewrite.
  • Twenty sentences of documented criticism, the UAE terrorist designation among them, removed in one sweep. The body still carries the words 78 times; the opening carries none.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

  • 2015-07-25, CorporateM, edit summary: “Trimming some repetition and excess detial for the Lead” (see the diff)

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16046545):

The Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) is the largest Muslim civil rights organization in North America. A non-profit , non-governmental organization , its stated goals are to promote a positive image of Islam in the United States , empower the American Muslim community, and promote understanding. Its critics charge that the group has ties to terrorist organizations and does not do enough to denounce Islamist terrorism worldwide. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. , with 31 regional offices and chapters in the U.S. and Canada , CAIR was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad , Omar Ahmad, and other former members of the Islamic Association of Palestine , which in turn was founded by senior…

2026 (revision 1362444808):

American Muslim advocacy group The Council on American–Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group . It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. , with regional offices nationwide. Through civil rights actions, media relations, civic engagement, and education, CAIR works to promote social, legal and political activism among Muslims in the United States . ^ Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on the C-SPAN Networks.org website Archived October 30, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved October 10, 2020 ^ Relations, Council on American-Islamic. “CAIR: 280 Delegates Lobby Congress on ‘Historic’ First National Muslim Advocacy Day” (Press release). …

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