Wikipedia's first sentence called it “afghan cleric”. Today it says “afghan islamic scholar and director of afghan madrasas and principal at madrasah zubaria in peshawar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Afghan cleric (died 2022)”. It now reads “Afghan cleric (died 2022) Sheikh”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Rahimullah Haqqani ( Pashto : شیخ رحیم الله حقاني ; died; 11 August 2022) was an Afghan Islamic scholar and director of Afghan Madrasas and principal at Madrasah Zubaria in Peshawar . Haqqani also led a brigade of the Afghan Taliban in Nangarhar province. He was a former student of Darul Uloom Haqqania . He was student of Shaikh Idrees . Haqqani had a tough stance on ISIS . He was considered very close to the Afghan Taliban . Haqqani used to work as a principal at Madrasah Zubaria in Peshawar 's Deer Colony in Pakistan. After the survival of the Peshawar blast , Rahimullah Haqqani blamed the attack on Khawarij . The Afghan Taliban use the term Khawarij for extremists affiliated with ISIS . "Kabul blast: Top Taliban cleric killed in blast, kamikaze hidden in prosthetic leg | Rahimullah Haqqani, a high-ranking cleric of the Taliban, was reportedly killed in an explosion in KabulGTN News" .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Afghan cleric (died 2022) Rahimullah Haqqani ( ; died 11 August 2022) was an Afghan cleric. He was a supporter of the Taliban and a critic of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-K). He believed that women could be educated as he felt there was nothing present in Islamic law that forbade it. He had previously survived two assassination attempts, including a 2020 bombing in Peshwar , Pakistan, which killed seven people.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “afghan cleric”. Today it says “afghan islamic scholar and director of afghan madrasas and principal at madrasah zubaria in peshawar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Afghan cleric (died 2022)”. It now reads “Afghan cleric (died 2022) Sheikh”. Read the current article and compare.
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afghan cleric
Now
afghan islamic scholar and director of afghan madrasas and principal at madrasah zubaria in peshawar
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