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Yahyah Michot: what Wikipedia removed

Yahya Michot was a Belgian Muslim academic and professor of Islamic studies. In 2010 the opening said that, writing under a pseudonym, his pamphlet’s “explicit reference to the Algerian massacre led to his removal from a professorship” at the Université catholique de Louvain. Today the word massacre is nowhere in the article; the opening lists only his academic posts and death. A reader today does not learn that Michot was once removed from a professorship over a pseudonymous pamphlet referencing the Algerian massacre.

The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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What was taken out

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  • The pseudonym he wrote under and its link to him, dropped along with the controversy it caused.
  • The specific reason he was removed from his professorship, a pamphlet referencing the Algerian massacre, no longer in the article.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 370199520):

Nasreddin Lebatelier is the pseudonym of Jean Michot (also known as Yahya Michot ), a Belgian Muslim who gained some notoriety in the late 1990s for publishing Le Statut des Moines in Lebanon in 1997. This pamphlet included a translation of a short work by the famed 13th-14th century Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya , called ‘On the Statute of Monks ’, which has been read as a call for the killing of Christian monks if they are found outside their monasteries in a Muslim country. Lebatelier’s introduction referred to the Algerian Armed Islamic Group ‘s beheading of seven Trappist monks in Tibhirine in 1996. He analysed not only the GIA’s justification for the killings but also the Muslim communit…

2025 (revision 1292057706):

Belgian Muslim academic (1952–2025) Yahya Michot (born Jean Michot ; 3 July 1952 – 1 April 2025) was a Belgian Muslim academic who was a professor of Islamic studies . Michot was the president of the Higher Council of Muslims in Belgium from 1995 to 1998. He taught at the Hartford Seminary , Connecticut as a professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations . He was also the editor of the journal “The Muslim World” edited by the Seminary. Michot died on 1 April 2025, at the age of 72. ^ “Yahya Michot” . Kube Publishing . Retrieved 1 September 2016 . ^ “Yahyah Michot” . Hartford Seminary . Retrieved 23 August 2016 . ^ L’éminent universitaire musulman belge Yahya Michot est mort : so…

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