Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad: what Wikipedia removed
Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad is the American imam whose congregation failed to report a man recruiting members for violent jihad, who turned out to be an FBI informant. In 2010 the opening said congregants “discussed the fact that a man who regularly attended the mosque appeared to be recruiting members for violent Jihad (this man turned out to be the FBI’s planted informant).” Today the opening describes him only as the mosque’s imam and a chaplain, with no mention of the recruitment episode, and jihad appears zero times in the opening though it survives three times in the article. A reader today learns he is an imam and prison chaplain, and not that his congregation failed to report a man recruiting for violent jihad.
The word “jihad” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jihad | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening identification of him as an American imam, reworded in the current opening.
- The sentence naming the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque in Newburgh, reworded in the current opening.
- The account of a man recruiting members for violent jihad who turned out to be an FBI informant, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 353925538):
Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad is an American imam . He is the imam of the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque in Newburgh, New York . He is also the Muslim chaplain of Bard College and has been a chaplain by the New York State Department of Corrections since 1985. Muhammad holds the B.A. in the social sciences from SUNY New Paltz, and a Masters of Professional Studies degree in theology and counseling from the New York Theological Seminary. Muhammad told a journalist that he was attracted to Islam as a fatherless 13-year-old growing up in Harlem. He became a student of Clarence 13X , founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths . Muhammad is known for his work with prison inmates. Muhammad drew national atten…
2025 (revision 1191570213):
Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad was the American imam of the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque in Newburgh, New York . He was also the Muslim chaplain of Bard College and had been a chaplain for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision since 1985. ^ The Chaplaincy at Bard College
Related
Section titled “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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