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Glen Jenvey is a British man who claims to have infiltrated Islamic extremist groups, including through a friendship with the cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed. Through 2010 the opening described his having ‘made friends with radical islamist Omar Bakri.’ Today the word islamist is nowhere in the article, though the opening still references Jenvey’s ties to extremist figures such as Abu Hamza al-Masri. A reader today learns Jenvey claims contact with extremist figures and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once specifically named Omar Bakri a radical Islamist.

The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. 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

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islamist10000
terror33333
jihad22111

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 earlier opening sentence about Jenvey devoting his time to infiltration is gone, replaced by a rewritten introductory sentence.
  • The wording of this sentence about Jenvey’s claimed infiltration of the Tamil Tigers is gone, replaced by a near-identical rewritten version.
  • The sentence describing Jenvey’s association with radical Islamist Omar Bakri is gone from the opening, and the word islamist is nowhere in the article today.
  • The passage referencing Jenvey’s reported possession of the Encyclopedia of Afghan Jihad is gone from the opening.
  • The passage about Jenvey’s BBC Newsnight interview is gone from the opening, though the current opening references other media coverage.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 369575830):

Glen Jenvey claims to have devoted much of his time to infiltrating, undermining and exposing radical Islamic groups. He also claims to have infiltrated the Tamil Tigers , working for them in London. Glen Jenvey suffers from Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive disorder and while ill placed a untrue story in support of jews killing Palestinians. jews attacked Jenvey who was ill with British police officers and Sir Allan Sugar making out Jenvey was a threat when in fact Jenvey was ill. Death threats was made by Jews and Jenvey still ill made friends with radical islamist Omar Bakri. Jenvey was attack at his home by BNP racists and Jews who asked the police to arrest Jenvey.Jenvey is still ill…

2025 (revision 1242963906):

British man (born 1965) Glen Jenvey (born 9 April 1965) is a British man who claims to have infiltrated, undermined and exposed Islamic extremist groups. He also states that he has infiltrated the Tamil Tigers , working for them in London. Jenvey says he used the internet to infiltrate terrorist organizations , and to have developed a relationship with Abu Hamza al-Masri through these means (via Jenvey’s Islamic News website, which posed as a genuine extremist site). Recorded film footage with James Ujaama was, he claims, obtained through similar means. Jenvey said that his tapes, in which Hamza called for Jihad , were responsible for Hamza’s arrest and trial. Jenvey appeared in the film Obs…

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