F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery

Evidence

Gloomily Soustelle records a conversation during his tenure of office between an F.L.N. leader and a teacher: “We shall not cease, even after we have thrown all the French into the sea. We shall destroy all the schools because they represent the French culture, which we want nothing of.” Somehow, as with their “hospitals” in the maquis, the F.L.N. managed to establish and maintain their own schools, fighting illiteracy, providing “evening courses” for adults, and keeping up the pressure of indoctrination on Muslim children. Whole new interpretations of history were introduced, sometimes going to excess in their zeal to revise the French version of the colonial past. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1234 (#expands, via linked claim)

In all this wave of terrorism it should be noted, however, that there was not one act of promiscuous bombing against civilians such as had been commonplace in Algiers and was to become so on a larger scale in Britain under the scourge of the I.R.A. a decade and a half later. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521; F.L.N. destroyed French schools and built its own counter-education system — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1234; F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970 (+1 more)

Related

• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.90)
• F.L.N. destroyed French schools and built its own counter-education system (similarity 0.89)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war on civilians as its strategy (similarity 0.86)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.86)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.85)
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy (similarity 0.85)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.83)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. justified civilian bombing as morally equivalent to French air attack. (similarity 0.83)
• FLN gained most from French brutal strike-breaking methods. (similarity 0.82)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. destroyed French schools and built its own counter-education system #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1234
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing #qualifies (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970
• France’s civilizing mission was not chiefly about cultural assimilation #contradicts (0.40)
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy #responds-to (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 521