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Tania Joya
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist who fled syria after traveling there with”. Today it says “british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist”.
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Tania Joya (born 1983) is a British-American former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist. In 2013, she fled Syria after traveling there with husband John Georgelas to join the Islamic State . In 2022, she asserted that she had an extramarital romantic relationship with US Representative Van Taylor , who subsequently acknowledged having a relationship and dropped out of a Texas runoff election.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist who fled syria after traveling there with”. Today it says “british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist who fled syria after traveling there with
Now
british-american former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist
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