The Islamic Party of Britain was a UK political party active from 1989 to 2006. Through 2015 the opening said, "The IPB was Islamist, opposed to both capitalism and communism." Today the opening says only that it "was opposed to both capitalism and communism," the word Islamist surviving twice elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns what the party opposed and does not learn that Wikipedia's own text once described the party itself as Islamist.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was Islamist , opposed to both capitalism and communism .1David Musa Pidcock, a convert to Islam , founded and led the party. They had limited electoral success with Pidcock achieving 800 votes in the Bradford North by-election, 1990 . The IPB was generally supportive of the Respect coalition with one of their leading members, home affairs spokesman Mohammad Naseem , standing for and funding the coalition.2 The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense .
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The opening as it stood in 2005
The Islamic Party of Britain was formed in 1989 . They describe their founding purpose to have been to encourage public debate about the Islamic alternative way of life to the failed ideologies of capitalism and communism . The party is led by their founder David Musa Pidcock (a convert to Islam). They have had no electoral success thus far. They publish a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense .
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The opening as it stood in 2015 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Political party in the United Kingdom The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was Islamist , opposed to both capitalism and communism . David Musa Pidcock, a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia , founded and led the party. The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense . The party entered the 1992 general election , standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford , a city with a large Muslim minority.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Political party in the United Kingdom The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was opposed to both capitalism and communism . David Musa Pidcock, a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia , founded and led the party. The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense . The party entered the 1992 general election , standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford , a city with a large Muslim minority, and one in London constituency Streatham.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Political party in the United Kingdom The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was opposed to both capitalism and communism . David Musa Pidcock, a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia , founded and led the party. The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense . The party entered the 1992 general election , standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford , a city with a large Muslim minority, and one in a London constituency, Streatham .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Political party in the United Kingdom The Islamic Party of Britain is a defunct political party in the United Kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006. The IPB was opposed to both capitalism and communism . David Musa Pidcock ( 1942 - December 5th 2021 ), a Sheffield man who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam while working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia , founded and led the party. The IPB published a quarterly magazine entitled Common Sense . The party entered the 1992 general election , standing three unsuccessful candidates in the constituencies of Bradford , a city with a large Muslim minority, and one in a London constituency, Streatham .
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formed in 1989
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defunct political party in the united kingdom that was active from its formation in 1989 until 2006
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