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Saajid Badat: what Wikipedia removed

Saajid Badat was sentenced to 13 years for plotting to blow up an aircraft with a shoe bomb, a co-conspirator of shoe bomber Richard Reid. Through 2020 the opening called him “British Islamist terrorist Saajid Muhammad Badat,” repeating the phrase twice. Today’s opening calls him only “a British terrorist,” with Islamist surviving once in the body. A reader today learns that Badat is a terrorist and not that his terrorism was specifically Islamist.

The word “islamist” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. 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

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word20052010201520206 October 20232025
islamist001200
terror001222

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 changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17238385):

Saajid Muhammad Badat (born March 28 1979 ) is a British student. He pled guilty to planning to blow-up an aircraft with a shoe bomb and was sentenced in 2005 to 13 years in prison by a British court. Saajid Badat is the child of Muhammad and Zubeidah Badat, both of whom immigrated to the UK from their birthplace in Malawi in the 1970s. They moved to Gloucester in south west England, where Muhammad found work in the Walls ice cream factory. Their first child Saajid was born at Gloucester maternity hospital on March 28 , 1979 . He attended St James Church of England primary school, and later won admittance to The Crypt , a highly regarded grammar school in Gloucester. Teachers there describe …

2025 (revision 1293926640):

British terrorist Saajid Muhammad Badat (born 28 March 1979) is a British terrorist who was sentenced to a 13-year prison term for planning to blow up an aircraft with a bomb hidden in his shoe. Badat did not go through with the plot. His co-conspirator Richard Reid attempted unsuccessfully to set off his bomb and is now serving a life sentence without parole in the United States. ^ “Shoe-bomber supergrass Saajid Badat testifies in US” . BBC News . 23 April 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2023 .

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