Hizb ut-Tahrir: what Wikipedia removed
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a pan-Islamist organization whose stated aim is to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia globally. Through 2010 the opening said the group works to create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism by preaching hatred and by actions such as calling suicide bombers “martyrs”. Today the opening does not carry that description, and the word martyr does not appear there at all, though it survives seven times in the body. A reader arriving now learns of the group’s caliphate ambitions and not that Wikipedia’s opening once tied the group to glorifying suicide bombers.
The word “colonial” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 5. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colonial | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| islamist | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| jihad | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| martyr | 0 | 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”- The description of the group as a Sunni “vanguard” party, dropped from the opening’s identification of the organization.
- The exact original phrasing of the founding sentence, superseded by a reworded version that keeps the same fact.
- The description of the group’s detailed program for imposing an Islamist state and its laws, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17951929):
Hizb ut-Tahrir ( Arabic : ﺣﺰﺏ ﺍﻟﺘﺤﺮﻳﺮ; meaning Party of Liberation ) is an an independent political party whose ideology is based on the teachings of Islam . The organization was founded by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani , a religious judge ( qadi ) of Jerusalem al-quds in 1953 . Hizb ut-Tahrir claim to be dedicated to the re-establishment of the Khilafah state, and the removing of what the organization consider to be imperialistic non-Islamic control from the islamic societies. According to Hizb ut-Tahrir, these influences include: non-Muslim military capacities, such as the US Armed Forces presence in Kuwait , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan ; non-Islamic laws and legal concepts; and Muslim trust in non-I…
2025 (revision 1297933105):
Pan-Islamist and fundamentalist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir ( HT ; Arabic : حزب التحرير , romanized : Ḥizb at-Taḥrīr , lit. ’ Party of Liberation ’ ) is an international pan-Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist political organization whose stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to unite the Muslim community (called ummah ) and implement sharia globally. Hizb ut-Tahrir was founded in 1953 as a political organization in then- Jordanian-controlled Jerusalem by Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani , a Palestinian Islamic scholar from Haifa who was educated in Egypt and served as a qadi (religious court judge) in Mandatory Palestine . He formulated a program and a “draft constitution” for t…
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