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David Myatt: what Wikipedia removed

David Myatt is a British far-right leader who later converted to Islam and became a militant. Through 2010 the opening said he “also became an advocate of Islamic martyrdom operations (Shaheed), expressed support for Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, referred to the Holocaust as a ‘hoax’, and supported the killing of ‘civilians’ or non-combatants.” Today the opening calls him only a “former Islamist militant,” with martyr appearing 0 times in the opening and surviving once in the body. A reader today learns he was a “former Islamist militant” and not that he advocated martyrdom operations, supported Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, or called the Holocaust a hoax.

The word “martyr” appeared 5 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

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word20052010201520206 October 20232025
martyr150000
terror014522
militant023232
islamist011121
jihad016111
antisemitism003100

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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  • An earlier line naming him plainly as ‘a British Muslim, Islamist, and a former neo-nazi’ is gone, replaced with less direct wording.
  • The detail that he led a movement before his 1998 conversion to Islam is gone from the opening.
  • The claim that he advocated Islamic martyrdom operations and expressed support for Osama bin Laden and the Taliban is gone from the opening.
  • The description of his writing as ‘a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection’ that was said to have inspired others is gone from the article.
  • A passage on his writings about Islam and National Socialism, and his translation work, is gone from the opening.
  • The detail that he originally changed his name to Abdul-Aziz is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17774541):

File:DavidMyatt2.jpg David Myatt David Wulstan Myatt (born 1950 ), also known as Abdul Aziz , Abdul-Aziz Ibn Myatt and Abdul Aziz Al-Qari , is a British neo-Nazi , founder of the National Socialist Movement and author of numerous pamphlets and articles advocating neo-Nazism , radical Islam , occultism , and what he calls “The Numinous Way of Folk Culture”. The Observer has described Myatt as the “ideological heavyweight behind the ultra-violent British neo-Nazi gang Combat 18 ”. [1] Following his conversion to Islam in 1998 , Myatt became an advocate of suicide attacks , which he calls “Martyrdom Operations” [2] and expressed his support for Osama bin Laden and the Taliban . His work has bee…

2025 (revision 1289075828):

British writer and religious leader (born 1950) David Wulstan Myatt (born 1950), also known by the pseudonym Abdulaziz ibn Myatt al-Qari , is a British writer, religious leader, far-right and former Islamist militant , most notable for allegedly being the political and religious leader of the White nationalist theistic Satanist organization Order of Nine Angles (ONA) from 1974 onwards. He is also the founder of Numinous Way. He is a former Muslim. ^ Abrams, Joe (Spring 2006). Wyman, Kelly (ed.). “The Religious Movements Homepage Project – Satanism: An Introduction” . virginia.edu . University of Virginia . Archived from the original on 29 August 2006 . Retrieved 30 December 2020 . ^ Goodrick…

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