Islam in Solomon Islands: what Wikipedia removed
Islam in Solomon Islands is a minority religion practiced by a few hundred people in a mostly Christian country. Through 2010 the opening reported the Finance Minister’s claim that Islamic militants from Indonesia had tried recruiting young Solomon Islanders for training camps in Indonesia. Today the opening covers only the religion’s arrival and its Ahmadiyya and Sunni branches, and militant appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns when Islam reached the Solomon Islands and not the recruitment claim the opening once reported.
The word “militant” 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
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 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 citation to the State Department’s religious freedom report was reworded, its substance kept.
- The Finance Minister’s reported claim that Islamic militants from Indonesia tried recruiting young Solomon Islanders was cut.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 359086152):
The United States Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Report states that according to the most recent reports, there are approximately 350 Muslims in the Solomon Islands . Adherents.com estimates that there are about 70 Muslims in the country, receiving this number from a 1996 estimate. When the deadly Solomons tsunami crashed through Gizo and Western Province killing 53 people and displacing thousands of villagers, the international Muslim Aid organization quickly dispatched medical teams and supplies for the affected areas and islanders embraced this aid as much as any other. Radio SIBC reported in July 2005 claims made by the countries’ Finance Minister Peter Boyers, tha…
2025 (revision 1294848661):
Solomon Islands is an overwhelmingly Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minuscule minority. Because of the secular nature of the country’s constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The arrival of the Islamic Religion in the country can be traced back to the early 1980s. Ahmadiyya, however, first reached Solomon Islands probably in 1987, when a Ghanaian missionary by the name of Al-Hajj Hafiz Ahmad Jibreel Saeed, belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited Guadalcanal on a reconnaissance trip lasting three years. Today, there are two major Islamic branches (sect) in the country, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community an…
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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