OAS targeted elite Muslims to force reliance on the Europeans

Evidence

On another front, the objective was “to destroy the best Muslim elements in the liberal professions so as to oblige the Muslim population to have recourse to ourselves”. It seemed characteristically twisted thinking. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1575

Categorization

• DEFINE: This shows the perverse logic of the OAS ‘savage war of peace’ — destroying the very bridge figures who could have made coexistence work.
• XREF: connects to: Individual land grants made Muslim recipients assassination targets and backfired — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 476; The O.A.S. sabotaged peace talks by assassinating moderates and Muslims. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1481; Islam became the convenient enemy to mobilize Europe’s territorial ambitions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 60 (+3 more)

Related

• The O.A.S. sabotaged peace talks by assassinating moderates and Muslims. (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Muslim prejudice was deliberately deployed by elites at specific political moments. (similarity 0.83)
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend (similarity 0.82)
• Islam became the convenient enemy to mobilize Europe’s territorial ambitions (similarity 0.81)
• The papacy manufactured Muslims as a holy-war enemy to unify Christian Europe (similarity 0.79)
• OAS terror backfired by accelerating rather than wrecking the peace negotiations. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim prejudice was deliberately deployed by elites at specific political moments. #exemplifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 25
• Islam became the convenient enemy to mobilize Europe’s territorial ambitions #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 60
• The papacy manufactured Muslims as a holy-war enemy to unify Christian Europe #corroborates (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 93