Revolution Muslim was a New York City organization, founded in 2007, that advocated a traditionalist Islamic state and endorsed al Qaeda's actions. Through 2015 the opening called it a radical Islamist organization and movement, and said it had come under scrutiny for its anti-Western rhetoric and for endorsing the actions of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Today's opening describes it only as an organization that "advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state," with that description gone, though terror survives 19 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that Wikipedia once flatly called Revolution Muslim a radical Islamist organization tied to endorsing terrorist groups.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Revolution Muslim is a radical Islamist organization and movement based in New York City that advocates the re-establishment of a structured Islamic state, the removal of the current rulers in heavily Muslim populated nations, the destruction of Israel, and an end to what they consider "western imperialism". They are opposed to depictions of Mohammed . It has come under scrutiny for its anti-Western rhetoric and for endorsing the actions of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. They operate both on its website and through street preaching and protests, mostly outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York .1
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The opening as it stood in 2015 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Revolution Muslim was an organization based in New York City that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state through the removal of the current rulers in Muslim -majority nations and an end to what they consider "Western imperialism".It was founded in 2007 by two American men, one of them Jewish , who had converted to Islam.They frequently protested outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York , a moderate Muslim mosque.The website was eventually shut down on November 2010, shortly after the arrest of one of the leaders.One of the leaders announced the group was reforming as a new organization called "Islam Policy", to be a think tank on Islamic issues.He was operating the website for Islam Policy from Morocco.By November, 2013, Younis Abdullah Muhammad , Zachary Adam Chesser and Yousef Al-Khattab—the organization's leaders—had all been arrested and convicted in US courts.Although Muhammad occasionally posts to the Islam Policy website from prison, the arrests can be seen as considerably weakening the organization.
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The opening as it stood in 2020 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Revolution Muslim ( RM ) was an organization based in New York City that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state through the removal of the current rulers in Muslim -majority nations and an end to what they consider "Western imperialism," It was founded in 2007 by two American Muslim men Jesse Curtis Morton and Yousef Al-Khattab. They frequently protested outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York , a moderate Muslim mosque. The website was eventually shut down on November 2010, shortly after the arrest of one of the leaders. By November 2013, Morton, Zachary Adam Chesser , and al-Khattab—the organization's leaders—had all been arrested and convicted in US courts.Morton was released in 2015 and al-Khattab in 2016, while Chesser is scheduled to be released in 2032.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Revolution Muslim ( RM ) was an organization based in New York City that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state through the removal of the current rulers in Muslim -majority nations and an end to what they consider "Western imperialism". It was founded in 2007 by two American Muslim men: Jesse Curtis Morton and Yousef Al-Khattab. They frequently protested outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York , a moderate Muslim mosque. The website was eventually shut down on November 2010, shortly after the arrest of one of the leaders. By November 2013, Morton, Zachary Adam Chesser , and al-Khattab—the organization's leaders—had all been arrested and convicted in US courts. Morton was released in 2015 and al-Khattab in 2016, while Chesser is scheduled to be released in 2032.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Islamic organization in New York City (2007–2010) Revolution Muslim ( RM ) was an organization based in New York City that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist Islamic state through the removal of the current rulers in Muslim -majority nations and an end to what they consider "Western imperialism". It was founded in 2007 by two American Muslim men: Jesse Curtis Morton and Yousef al-Khattab. They frequently protested outside the Islamic Cultural Center of New York , a moderate Muslim mosque. The website was eventually shut down in November 2010, shortly after the arrest of one of the leaders. By November 2013, Morton, Zachary Adam Chesser , and al-Khattab—the organization's leaders—had all been arrested and convicted in US courts. Morton was released in 2015 and al-Khattab in 2016, while Chesser is scheduled to be released in 2032.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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radical islamist organization and movement based in new york city that advocates the re-establishment of a stru
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organization based in new york city that advocated the establishment of a traditionalist islamic state through
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