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.

QUESTION: This claim frames a complex civil war as a 'microcosm' of a broader civilizational tension — worth probing how robust that generalization is.

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