Justice and Construction Party: what Wikipedia removed

This Libyan political party is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose parent organization multiple governments have designated a terrorist group. Through 2015 the opening said the party is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, “which is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain” and others, and that “the party advocates Islamism.” Today the opening says only that the party is “associated with the Muslim Brotherhood,” with the terrorist designation and the party’s own stated Islamist ideology both gone; terror appears 0 times in the opening today and survives 6 times in the body. A reader today learns the party is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and not that multiple governments designate the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, or that the party itself advocates Islamism.

The word “terror” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 6. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 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/justice-and-construction-party.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	4	0	0	0
islamist	5	4	4	4

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• An alternate name for the party, Justice and Development Party, is gone from the opening.
• The plain statement that ‘the party advocates Islamism’ is gone from the opening.
• The statement that the Muslim Brotherhood, the party’s parent movement, is considered a terrorist organization by multiple governments is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

2015 (revision 669239471):

The Justice and Construction Party or Justice and Development Party ( Template:Lang-ar , Hizb Al-Adala Wal-Bina ) is the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party in Libya . It was officially founded on 3 March 2012 in Tripoli . The party advocates Islamism . Mohamed Sowan of Misrata heads the party, while Mohamed Gaair is its spokesman. While the party finished second in the elections, it is believed to have attracted enough independents to have become the majority, and infighting in the National Forces Alliance has allowed the Brotherhood’s political arm to gradually consolidate control over Libya. The party backed the election of Nouri Abusahmain a Amazigh and moderate Islamist over the secula…

2025 (revision 1296757346):

Political party in Libya Not to be confused with Justice and Development Party (Turkey) or Justice and Development Party (Morocco) . The Justice and Construction Party (JCP) or Justice and Development Party ( Arabic : حزب العدالة والبناء , Hizb Al-Adala Wal-Bina ) is a political party in Libya associated with the Muslim Brotherhood . It was officially founded on 3 March 2012 in Tripoli . Emad al-Banani of Misrata is the head of the party, and Mohamed Gaair is its spokesman . While it finished second in the election of 2014, it is believed to have attracted enough independents to have become the majority, and infighting in the National Forces Alliance has allowed the Brotherhood’s political a…

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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