F.L.N. destroyed French schools and built its own counter-education system
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
Categorization
- XREF: Directly ties to reader’s interest in revolution fighting back colonial ideology across French institutions. — connects to: F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery
Related
- F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.89)
- Challe aimed to disrupt rather than annihilate the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
- The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.80)
- Semi-clandestine contact with Algerians taught European democrats the laws of revolutionary action. (similarity 0.80)
- French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt (similarity 0.79)
- F.L.N. shifted its terrorist focus to metropolitan France (similarity 0.79)
- The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.78)
- F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.78)