Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious.

Evidence

Following September 2001, whether in Paris or London, intelligence evolving about the terror networks of al-Qaeda indicated numerous links with Algeria. In turn there were roots of jihad laid back in the Savage War —though it was not of itself a conflict rooted in Islam. It was, in effect, first and foremost, an anti-colonial war of national liberation. One cannot stress this fact too often. Nevertheless, in many ways the horrors suffered in Algeria’s own civil war do read like a paradigm, a microcosm of present-day Islam’s frustrated inadequacy to meet the challenges of the modern world, the anger generated thereby finding itself directed into lashing out against the rich, successful West. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 47 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

After endless discussions and mountains of reading, I began to see things more clearly. To fight for the humanization of the repression was futile! It was necessary to fight in order to impose a political solution. But what solution? It soon became clear to me that if even the embryo of a social revolution was to be created in Algeria, the colonial links with France would have to be broken. Algeria’s very survival required that she promote the needed revolution, and this revolution could be accomplished only through independence. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 557 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 47; War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth; Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 17 (+1 more)

Related

• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.92)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.89)
• Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. (similarity 0.87)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.86)
• Modern Algeria is inseparably the child of wartime Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.84)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.84)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s revolution deliberately suppressed individual hero cults out of collectivity (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian guerrilla warfare became the prototype studied by liberation movements worldwide (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.82)
• Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.82)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 47
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 557
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth #expands (0.50)
• Algeria’s revolution was won by mass civilian struggle, not by guerrilla arms. #complicates (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 17