Algerian Civil War
CONFLICTED
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The French Civilization Hypocrisy
The French pursued their policies in Algeria of making the Algerians French at heart. They were pursuing this with a religious zeal that is contrary to the liberal image they were trying to portray. There was an Algerian Sufi in the early 20th century his name was Sheikh Ahmad Al-Alawi who founded, you know, a Sufi brotherhood in Algeria. He developed a new form of Islamic spirituality that accommodated modernity without sacrificing what he considered to be the most essential points of Islam. So we don't often talk about Sufism and conflicted and I hope maybe one day we can redress that because I find it absolutely fascinating.
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