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.

XREF: Connects to broader histories of decolonization and the origins of modern Islamist militancy beyond Algeria, echoing literature on the long afterlife of colonial violence.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 47