Munir Shakir founded Lashkar-e-Islam. Through October 6, 2023 the opening said "Munir Shakir is a Pakistani militant, Islamic cleric and founder of the Deobandi jihadist terrorist group Lashkar-e-Islam." Today the word terror does not appear anywhere in the article, and the opening introduces him only as "an Islamic cleric and preacher" who "became a strong critic of state oppression by Pakistan." A reader today does not learn that Wikipedia's own opening once called Shakir a militant and called his organization a jihadist terrorist group.
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Munir Shakir ( Pashto / Urdu : منیر شاکر ; 4 April 1969 - 15 March 2025) was an Islamic cleric and preacher. The founder of Lashkar-e-Islam , he later became a strong critic of state oppression by Pakistan and injustices against Pashtuns . He actively participated in Pashtun Tahafuz Movement gatherings, including the Pashtun National Jirga in Khyber . In December 2024, Shakir, along with Malik Naseer Kokikhel Afridi and Mufti Kifayatullah Swati , led a delegation of the Pashtun Jirga to Kurram District to mediate a Shia–Sunni conflict between two groups of Pashtun tribes . Shakir was killed by a bomb planted outside a Peshawar mosque on 15 March 2025.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Mufti Munir Shakir ( birthdate unknown ) is a religious figure operating in northwestern Pakistan, and the founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam . Anti-Munir Shakir slogan in Rawalpindi Shakir worked in Kurram Agency until 2004, when he was ejected by tribal elders following a mosque bombing . Shamim Shahid Call for action against gun-totting supporters of Pro-Taleban cleric Khaleej Times, 1 Apr 2006
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Mufti Munir Shakir ( birthdate unknown ) is a religious figure operating in northwestern Pakistan, and the founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam . Anti-Munir Shakir slogan in Rawalpindi Shakir worked in Kurram Agency until 2004, when he was ejected by tribal elders following a mosque bombing. Shamim Shahid Call for action against gun-totting supporters of Pro-Taleban cleric Khaleej Times, 1 Apr 2006
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Mufti Munir Shakir ( birthdate unknown ) is a religious figure operating in northwestern Pakistan, and the founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam . Anti-Munir Shakir slogan in Rawalpindi Shakir worked in Kurram Agency until 2004, when he was ejected by tribal elders following a mosque bombing.
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Munir Shakir is a Pakistani militant, Islamic cleric and founder of the Deobandi jihadist terrorist group Lashkar-e-Islam .
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What Wikipedia says this is
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religious figure operating in northwestern pakistan
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islamic cleric and preacher
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