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2004-01-16 Africa: North

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They cut many things, not merely throats. After the Independence FLN tried to make forget its corruption, dictatorship and opression of the Berbers by being more Islamic than thou: the FLN needed people regarding at liberation from the infidels as something offsetting everything else.

Thus "progressist" Algeris was the country who gave women the lower status in all Mahgreb (AFAIK poligamy was legal), oppression of the Kabyls and the Chaoui (the Berber speaking minorities who resited arabization) and of course, accusing the democrats of being the "party of France', ie infidels. But the worse is that they imported Egyptian teachers for spreading panarabism and Islamism (Muslim Brotherrhood was prosecuted by Nasser so the teachers who went to Algeria were mostly from the Brotherhood), a generation later their pupils would form the FIS and GIA.

Ah, the Berbers are accusing the government of replacing their own Suffi imams by Wahabis.

I think there is a cure and it involves removal of the government, REAL elections trusted by the people (turnout was under 30% in the ones the FIS was poised to win) and give Algeria an ALGERIAN identity (like Kemal did for Turkey) ie not a part of the Arab or Muslim world: have the Islamist and panarabists being looked as traitors trying to put Algeria under the yoke of the Saudis.

Posted by JFM 2004-1-16 1:56:05 AM|| 2004-1-16 1:56:05 AM|| Front Page Top

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