European Council for Fatwa and Research: what Wikipedia removed
The European Council for Fatwa and Research is a Dublin-based body of Islamic clerics presided over by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, tasked with issuing religious rulings for Muslims in Europe. Through 2005 the opening described it as an organization considered as belonging to the islamist tendency within the islamic world community. Today that description is gone from the article entirely, and islamist appears nowhere. A reader today learns who founded the council and who presides over it, and not the ideological tendency Wikipedia itself once said it belonged to.
The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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”- The opening’s description of the council as belonging to the Islamist tendency within the Islamic world was reworded away, and today’s opening carries no ideological characterization at all.
- An alternate name for the council, Islamic Cultural Centre in Ireland, was dropped, and a reader today does not learn the body once went by that name.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16972748):
A Dublin-based private foundation, founded in London at 29-30 March 1997 on the initiative of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe, the European Council for Fatwa and Research (‘ECFR’) is a largely self-selected body, composed by islamic clerics and scholars, presided by Yusuf al-Qaradawi , and considered as belonging to the islamist tendency within the islamic world community, the Ummah . Sometimes, it is (was?) called ‘Islamic Cultural Centre in Ireland’.
2025 (revision 1280320467):
Islamic organization based in Dublin, Ireland The European Council for Fatwa and Research ( ECFR ) is a Dublin -based private foundation, founded in London on 29–30 March 1997 on the initiative of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe . The council is a largely self-selected body, composed of Islamic clerics and scholars, presided over by Yusuf al-Qaradawi .
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- 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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