Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim: what Wikipedia removed
Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim was an Iraqi Shia cleric who led the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The 2005 opening said he had co-founded the modern Islamist political movement in Iraq in the 1960s. Today’s opening omits this founding role entirely, though the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that al-Hakim personally co-founded Iraq’s modern Islamist political movement.
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.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| occupation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| resistance | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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 claim that al-Hakim personally co-founded Iraq’s modern Islamist political movement in the 1960s, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16177115):
File:Muhammad baqir alhakim.jpg Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim ( 1939 - August 29 , 2003 ) was the foremost Shia Muslim leader in Iraq until his assassination in a bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf at which he had led prayers. He was the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim Tabatabai , the worldwide leader of Shia Muslims from 1955 to 1970 . Al-Hakim co-founded the modern Islamist political movement in Iraq in the 1960s , along with Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr , with whom he worked closely until the latter’s death in 1980 . Though not among the most hard-line of Islamists, Al-Hakim was seen as dangerou…
2025 (revision 1294496662):
Iraqi Shia Islamic scholar and politician (1939–2003) Ayatollah al- Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Muhsin al-Hakim at-Tabataba’i (8 July 1939 – 29 August 2003; Arabic : السيد محمد باقر محسن الحكيم الطباطبائي ), also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia Islamic Scholar and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Al-Hakim spent more than 20 years in exile in Iran and returned to Iraq on 12 May 2003 following the US-led invasion . Al-Hakim was a contemporary of Ayatollah Khomeini , and The Guardian compared the two in terms of their times in exile and their support in their respective homelands. After his return to Iraq, al-Hakim’s life was in danger bec…
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