Algeria and invincible igorance

"The country's 11-year civil conflict has pitted self-proclaimed radical Muslims against moderate Muslims. Approximately 150,000 civilians, terrorists, and security forces had been killed by the end of 2003. Extremist self-proclaimed Islamists have issued public threats against all "infidels" in the country, both foreigners and citizens, and have killed both Muslims and non-Muslims, including missionaries. Extremists continued attacks against both the Government and moderate Muslim and secular civilians; however, the level of violence perpetrated by these terrorists continued to decline during the period covered by this report. There were 183 civilian deaths due to terrorism in the first 6 months of 2003, compared with 313 civilians killed in the same period in 2002. These figures contrast with more than 1,000 killings per month several years earlier. The majority of the country's terrorist groups, as a rule, do not differentiate between religious and political killings. During the period covered by this report, the majority of cases of security force and civilian deaths at the hands of terrorists were a result of knifings (particularly throat-slitting) and shootings. Terrorists, often claiming religious justification for their actions, set up roadblocks to kill civilians and security force personnel."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/algeria-90s.htm

Algeria didn't invade Iraq. Algeria has never been part of any 'coalition of the willing'. Algeria has every provision for a Muslim way of life. Yet in 11 years 150,000 people have been murdered, often in the most horrific way imaginable by the same people who want Britain to become part of the umma. You will never get the marxists and the terrorist-supporters to discuss Algeria. It just doesn't fit any of their conspiracy theories about colonial oppression and why the world is as it is. I met an Algerian in London recently who despaired of ever getting British people to understand that Algeria is a secular country under the most gruesome seige. Certainly the British government, aside from Mr Blair, seems completely unpeturbed by the parallels between Islamists in Britain and Islamists in Algeria.

None of the guilt and self-abasement derived nonsense about our terrible crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan stands up to scrutiny- but then long before the beginning of the present century, the Islamist writing was already on the wall.