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Islamic Action Organisation: what Wikipedia removed

The Islamic Action Organisation is a Shia Islamist political party in Iraq founded in the 1960s by cleric Mohammed Taqi al-Modarresi. The 2005 opening said it “was the first of the Shi’ite opposition groups to turn to using terrorism against the Baathist regime.” Today the word terror appears nowhere in the article. A reader today learns the party opposed the Baathist government and does not learn that Wikipedia once described that opposition as a terrorist campaign.

The word “terror” 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

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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 alternate names of the party, the Islamic Task Organisation and Munazzamat, dropped from the opening.
  • The sentence naming the party as the first Shi’ite opposition group to turn to terrorism against the Baathist regime, dropped entirely.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17171741):

The Islamic Action Organisation also known as the Islamic Task Organisation or Munazzamat al-‘Amal al-Islami is a Shi’ite political party in Iraq . It existed for several decades as anti-Bathist group closely associated with the larger al-Dawa . Founded in the 1960s in Karbala the IAO followed the teachings of Ayatollah Mohamed Sadeq Al-Shirazi and was more radical than al-Dawa. It was the first of the Shi’ite opposition groups to turn to using terrorism against the Baathist regime. Its most notable action was an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Tariq Aziz in April 1980 . This attack led to a strict crack down on the group and much of its presence inside the country was lost. Originally b…

2025 (revision 1286587867):

Islamic political party in Iraq The Islamic Action Organisation ( IAO ; Arabic : منظمة العمل الإسلامي , romanized : Munaẓamat al-ʿAmal al-Islāmī ) is a Shia political party in Iraq . It was founded by religious cleric, grand Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi al-Modarresi in the 1960s, as the Message Movement ( Arabic : الحركة الرسالية , romanized : al-Ḥaraka al-Risāliya ), and in 1979, was changed to the Islamic Action organisation. ^ Rob Johnson (24 November 2010). The Iran-Iraq War . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-137-26778-8 . Retrieved 8 May 2016 . ^ Cesari, Jocelyne (2014-04-14). The Awakening of Muslim Democracy . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04418-0 .

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