Green Lane Masjid: what Wikipedia removed
Green Lane Masjid, a Birmingham mosque that Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary Undercover Mosques investigated for extremist preaching. Through 2015 the opening said the mosque “featured in Channel 4’s Dispatches programme Undercover Mosques, which documented Islamist extremism in British mosques including preachers advocating violence, anti-semitism, sexism and homophobia.” Today the word appears 0 times in the opening, though it survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that an investigative documentary recorded preachers at this mosque advocating antisemitism.
The word “antisemitism” 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 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”- An older phrasing of the opening sentence, dropped when the article was rewritten.
- A description of the mosque’s location, moved out of the opening.
- A description of the mosque’s facilities, reworded when the opening was rewritten.
- The finding that a Channel 4 investigation documented preachers at the mosque advocating antisemitism, violence, sexism and homophobia left the opening.
- The detail that West Midlands Police investigated the broadcaster over the programme’s claims left the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 364356720):
Green Lane Masjid , commonly referred to as ‘Green Lane Mosque’, was established in the 1970s, is one of Birmingham’s and Britain ‘s major mosques, and the national headquarters of People of hadith . The Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath , Birmingham, with one of the buildings having been constructed as a public library and baths , designed by local architects Martin & Chamberlain and built in the redbrick and terracotta Gothic-Jacobean style, between 1893 and 1902. It is a Grade II listed building . The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, a community hall, madrasah, library, shop, some accommodation, and provides funeral services to the local Mu…
2025 (revision 1297024860):
Former public baths and library complex and current Muslim centre in Birmingham Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre (GLMCC), is a mosque in Birmingham . It has been a registered charity in England since 2008. The Masjid occupies a prominent corner site in Green Lane, Small Heath , Birmingham. The complex includes prayer halls for men and women, a community hall, madrasah , library, shop, and some accommodation. It also provides funeral services to the local Muslim community. In a 2007 national competition to find the country’s ‘Model Mosque’ run by the British Islam Channel , the mosque came second, behind the Madni Jamia Masjid . ^ “Green Lane Masjid” . Muslims in Britain . 25 April 2015 .…
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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