The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad

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

Categorization

• XREF: This is the central claim the reader wants—the Savage War as anti-colonial, contradicting its later use as jihad template. — connects to: Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious.; Le Pen’s anti-Muslim rhetoric tapped Algerian War post-colonial resentments — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 495; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: What exactly was the causal mechanism linking 1954–62 to al-Qaeda’s Algerian networks?

Related

• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.92)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.85)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.84)
• Le Pen’s anti-Muslim rhetoric tapped Algerian War post-colonial resentments (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.83)
• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.81)
• The independent Algerian state proved as unable to crush insurgency as France had been. (similarity 0.81)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.81)
• Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.80)
• Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Le Pen’s anti-Muslim rhetoric tapped Algerian War post-colonial resentments #expands (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 495
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algerians rejected colonial medicine not from ignorance but as resistance #exemplifies (0.50)