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Haven't seen it, but unfortunately, I'm told it was pretty close to reality. That said, it's not particularly relevant.
by mercurial 11y ago
Haven't seen it, but unfortunately, I'm told it was pretty close to reality. That said, it's not particularly relevant.
- hackuser 11y ago> it's not particularly relevant I disagree. (If it's the film I'm thinking of) it shows brutal oppression perpetrated by the French on Algiers. It might inform an understanding of current relationships between France and Islam.
- mercurial 11y agoThe French oppression in Algeria was real, and there was a bloody episode right after WWII, and then the Algerian War of Independence was extremely brutal. But this doesn't have much to do with Islam. The Algerian FLN was mostly a nationalist/left-wing group. In fact, Algeria was the theater of a bloody civil war in the 90s between the FLN dictatorship and Islamic extremists.