[kalee]

self-ping for later reading

[samtheman]

The Algerian War (1954-1962) was “sold” to the world as a “movement of national liberation.” Internally, it was presented as a jihad. The daily newspaper of the FLN (National Liberation Front) was called al-Mujaheed. The premier target of FLN terror was not the French, but the Algerian Muslims. In order to become “sole representatives of the Algerian people,” the FLN went into the villages, the douars and the mechtas, and killed with abandon, dozens, hundreds, thousands. In the cities, in the countryside, in order to enforce their ban on alcohol and tobacco, they cut off noses, lips, ears. They slaughtered the other Algerian factions. Terror as a system of government. Their terror against the French of course was no less disgusting, indiscriminate, targeting civilians, kids, with relish and priority. They desired that torrents of blood alienate the two communities, they enjoyed it. That was their jihad. Slicing open some poor guy’s skull and depositing the brain on the road; nailing a petty Muslim civil servant to a tree, eyes gouged out, appalling mutilations, killing the babies in pregnant women’s wombs, French soldiers with their cut-off genitals in their mouths - these were finesses and delights.

In other words, what Breck Girl would call a "bumper sticker war".

[Ooh-Ah]

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[PGalt]

Thanks to Laurent Murawiecz and Jamie Glazov for an outstanding, educational, informative discussion. Thanks Ooh-Ah for a very important post. BTTT!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link!