Islamic Supreme Council of America: what Wikipedia removed

The Islamic Supreme Council of America describes itself as promoting moral education, but earlier Wikipedia versions described it as controversial and engaged in opposing violent Islamist groups. In 2005 the opening said ISCA “is a controversial Muslim…” organization whose “leadership has been working to expose and fight against fundamentalist and violent Islamist groups.” Today’s opening calls it simply “a Muslim religious organization” and drops the word controversial; islamist survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that ISCA was once described as controversial or that it positioned itself against fundamentalist and violent Islamist groups.

The word “islamist” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 6 moments between 2005 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/islamic-supreme-council-of-america.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2005	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
islamist	2	1	0	0	0	0
terror	1	1	0	0	0	0
militant	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

• The opening’s description of ISCA as controversial, reworded to drop that word.
• A sentence naming Saudi Arabia, the Taliban and many terrorist organizations in some comparative context, dropped from the article.
• The sentence describing ISCA’s work against fundamentalist and violent Islamist groups, dropped from the opening.
• A sentence naming Shaykh Hisham Kabbani as founding member and chairman, dropped from the opening.
• A sentence noting the organization had become increasingly controversial in recent years, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

2005 (revision 17892916):

The Islamic Supreme Council of America ( ISCA ) is a controversial Muslim religious organization in the United States . The ISCA strives to integrate traditional scholarship in resolving contemporary issues affecting the maintenance of Islamic beliefs in a modern, secular society. This Council promotes traditional Islamic legal rulings, and explicitly rejects puritanical forms of Islam, such as the Wahhabi , Islam practised by Saudi Arabia, the Taliban , and many terrorist organizations. ISCA’s leadership has been working to expose and fight against fundamentalist and violent Islamist groups. Controversial groups that support Islamist ideas, have consistently opposed moderate Muslims from sp…

2025 (revision 1279066140):

Islamic organization based in the United States The Islamic Supreme Council of America ( ISCA ) is a Muslim religious organization in the United States , founded in 1998 by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani , who was also its first chairman. The council describes itself as “dedicated to educating Muslims and non-Muslims alike, and developing good citizenry through the teaching of moral excellence”. ISCA is based in Fenton, Michigan . ^ Cite error: The named reference tapper was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Goodstein, Laurie (October 28, 2001). “A NATION CHALLENGED: THE CLERIC; Muslim Leader Who Was Once Labeled an Alarmist Is Suddenly a Sage” . The New York Times . ^ Islamic Supreme…

Related

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