Raheel Raza is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and activist, among the most prominent Muslim supporters of Israel. Through 2015 the opening said plainly, "She opposes Islamic terrorism and the oppression of Muslim women." Today's opening reads only "She opposes Islamic extremism," terrorism gone from the opening though the word survives 6 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that she specifically named her opposition as being to Islamic terrorism, or that the same sentence once also named her opposition to the oppression of Muslim women.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Raheel Raza (born 1949-50 in Pakistan) is a Muslim Canadian journalist , author , public speaker , media consultant, anti-racism activist , and interfaith discussion leader. She lives in Toronto, Canada .1She has been compared to Asra Nomani and Amina Wadud for her controversial views on Islam. She opposes Islamic terrorism and the oppression of Muslim women. As a result, she has received death threats.2 Seismic Shifts: Leading in Times of Change . Emmaus Road: churches making their way forward . Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation . "In particular Nomani, Raza, and Hassan have been strong and more controversial voices for reform of Muslim women's role..." Meena Sharify-Funk (2008).3 Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation .
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The opening as it stood in 2020 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Raheel Raza (born 1949–50) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist , author , public speaker , media consultant, anti-racism activist , and interfaith discussion leader.She lives in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. Seismic Shifts: Leading in Times of Change . Emmaus Road: churches making their way forward . Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Canadian journalist and activist Raheel Raza (born 1949–50) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist , author , public speaker , media consultant, anti-racism activist , and interfaith discussion leader. She is among the most prominent Muslim supporters of Israel . She lives in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. Seismic Shifts: Leading in Times of Change . Emmaus Road: churches making their way forward . Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Canadian journalist and activist Raheel Raza (born 1949 or 1950) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist , author , public speaker , media consultant, anti-racism activist , and interfaith discussion leader. She is among the most prominent Muslim supporters of Israel . She lives in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society . Seismic Shifts: Leading in Times of Change . Emmaus Road: churches making their way forward . Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation .
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Today
“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 6. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2015 and 2025.
Then
muslim canadian journalist
Now
pakistani-canadian journalist
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