Did Wikipedia remove the word "jihad" from the Qasim Rashid article?

Yes. "jihad" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Qasim Rashid article stop using the word "jihad"?

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.

How can I verify what Wikipedia's Qasim Rashid article used to say?

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Qasim Rashid

The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 2 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.

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 2026-08-02. “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2.

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The opening as it read in 2015

Qasim Rashid (born July 21, 1982) is a vocal human rights activist and an advocate of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in America. He is an attorney and graduate of the Richmond School of Law He served as Executive Editor of The Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business. He has authored a book The Wrong Kind of Muslim. He has co-authored and co-edited two books, Towards a Greater Jihad and By the Dawn's Early Light , and has been featured in local and national news media including NBC and NPR. Qasim in a MicroQasm (March 8, 2012).¹

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 641414916.

Today

“jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. Read the current article and compare.

Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
	2015	2020	Oct '23	2025
jihad	1	0	0	0

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2015 and 2020.

Then

vocal human rights activist and an advocate of the ahmadiyya muslim community in america

Now

pakistani-born american author

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