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IslamOnline

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “islamic website that describes its mission as to create a unique”. Today it says “global islamic website on the internet providing services to muslims and non-muslims in several languages”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Its motto is "credibility and distinction." Sunni Muslim scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi founded the site, but no longer has any ties to it. The Qatari government has force moderates out of the website in March. The English version of the website has not been updated since February 22. According to Alexa Traffic Rank in September 2007 most hits came from Egypt (21.4%), followed by the Palestinian Territories (11%), the United Arab Emirates (10.3%), Saudi Arabia (8.9%), Morocco (8.7%), USA (2.1%) and Germany and the UK 0.9%.1

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “islamic website that describes its mission as to create a unique”. Today it says “global islamic website on the internet providing services to muslims and non-muslims in several languages”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

islamic website that describes its mission as to create a unique

Now

global islamic website on the internet providing services to muslims and non-muslims in several languages

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