Did Wikipedia remove the word "terror" from the Fathi Yakan article?

Yes. "terror" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2015 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Fathi Yakan article stop using the word "terror"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2015. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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What did Wikipedia remove from the Fathi Yakan article?

The opening as it read in 2015

Fathi Yakan (February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli . He was among the pioneers of the Islamic movement in the 1950s and the head of the Islamic Action Front (Lebanon). He is regarded as Islamic Group (Al Jemaah Islamiyah) 's grandfather and leading ideologue. He initiated a political effort between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his allies on the one hand and the opposition in a bid to end the rule crisis in the wake of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Sheikh Yakan was married to Mona Haddad with whom he had established a private Islamic university, Al-Jinan University . He has four daughters and a son. He has authored more than 35 books, some of which were translated into many languages. Yakan died on June 13, 2009 after he was admitted to the Hotel Dieu Hospital a day earlier.¹

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The opening as it stood in 2010

Fathi Yakan (February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli . He was among the pioneers of the Islamic movement in the 1950s and the head of the Islamic Action Front (Lebanon). He initiated a political effort between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his allies on the one hand and the opposition in a bid to end the rule crisis in the wake of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Sheikh Yakan was married to Mona Haddad with whom he had established a private Islamic university, Al-Jinan University . He has four daughters and a son. He has authored more than 35 books, some of which were translated into many languages. Yakan died on June 13th, 2009 after he was admitted to the Hotel Dieu Hospital a day earlier.

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The opening as it stood in 2020 7 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Fathi Yakan (born Fathi Mohamed Anaya ( ), February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli .

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The opening as it stood in 2025

Islamic cleric Fathi Yakan (born Fathi Mohamed Anaya ; Arabic : فتحي محمد عناية ; Turkish : Fethî Yeken ), February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli .

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terror	0	1	0	0	0
jihad	0	1	0	0	0