The French oppression in Algeria was real, and there was a bloody episode right after WWII, and then the Algerian War of Independence was extremely brutal. But this doesn&#x27;t have much to do with Islam. The Algerian FLN was mostly a nationalist&#x2F;left-wing group. In fact, Algeria was the theater of a bloody civil war in the 90s between the FLN dictatorship and Islamic extremists.