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National Shiite Movement: what Wikipedia removed

The Sadrist Movement is an Iraqi political movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr that won 73 seats in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. Through 2010 the opening called it “an Iraqi Islamist national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr.” Today the opening calls it “an Iraqi Shia Islamic national movement,” and the word Islamist survives twice in the body. A reader today does not learn that Wikipedia’s own opening once classified the movement as Islamist rather than simply Islamic.

The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. 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 rewording of the movement’s own designation from ‘Islamist’ to ‘Shia Islamic.’
  • A description of the movement’s support base among poor, urban Shia Iraqis, dropped from the opening.
  • A note on a smaller rival branch, the Islamic Virtue Party, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 358042369):

Political party in Iraq The Sadrist Movement is an Iraqi Islamist national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr . The movement draws wide support from across Iraqi society and especially from the Shi’a poor in the country. The most important person in setting the goals and the philosophy of the movement was Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr . A prominent preceding influence had also been Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr . The movement is religious and populist. Its goal is a society ordered by a combination of religious laws and tribal customs. The Islamic Virtue Party is a smaller, rival branch of the Sadrist movement.

2025 (revision 1297236431):

Political party in Iraq The Sadrist Movement ( Arabic : التيار الصدري , romanized : al-Tayyār al-Sadrī ) was an Iraqi Shia Islamic national movement and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr . The Sadrist Movement ended as largest political party in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election , with 73 seats in Parliament, but in June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis , Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc resigned from parliament. ^ “The Sadrist–Communist Alliance: Implications for Iraq’s Secular Politics” . 6 June 2018 . Retrieved 30 October 2019 . ^ “Iraqi Communists and Shia Sadrists unite to tackle corruption and sectarianism” . Middle East Eye . 28 February 2018. ^ Cite error: Th…

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