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Hamza Tzortzis

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british public speaker and researcher on islam”. Today it says “british muslim apologist”.
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Hamza Andreas Tzortzis (born 1980) is a British public speaker and researcher on Islam .1 A British Muslim convert of Greek heritage, he was at one time associated with extreme positions and extremists. Tzortzis has tried to distance himself from allegations of extremism, and now says he preaches about peace and compassion. He considers himself just Muslim . http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/7235/1/Baz17PhD.pdf Haroon Siddique.2

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british public speaker and researcher on islam”. Today it says “british muslim apologist”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

british public speaker and researcher on islam

Now

british muslim apologist

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