Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class

Evidence

This time he tried a new technique that was ingeniously simple but even more cruel in that it struck equally at ordinary, working-class Muslims and at Europeans. … The casualties of the innocents were this time almost equally divided between Muslims and Europeans, which did little to improve the image of the F.L.N. among the Muslim population. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 647

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the F.L.N. battled for Muslim popular support even as it killed Muslim civilians. — connects to: Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image.; F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies.; F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323 (+1 more)

Related

• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.91)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.90)
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. terrorized Muslim collaborators and used mutilation as an economic and symbolic weapon (similarity 0.85)
• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French (similarity 0.84)
• F.L.N. terror killed six times more Muslims than Europeans (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. justified civilian bombing as morally equivalent to French air attack. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N. terrorized collaborators and issued edicts to cripple settler economic interests. (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.83)
• F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorist attacks boosted the F.L.N.’s diplomatic standing despite revulsion (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. terror silenced Muslim informants and paralyzed collaboration with the French #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 323
• F.L.N. terrorism and G.P.R.A. assertiveness eroded the French ‘third force’ Muslim strategy #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1283