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> 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 infor
by 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.