" Islamists " who have spoken out against the use of the term insisting they are merely " Muslims ", include Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual mentor of Hizbullah, and Abbassi Madani, leader of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front.

Amid growing discontent from the Algerian population, the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ) acknowledged some demands, and the Popular Front initiated the Blum-Viollette proposal in 1936 which was supposed to enlighten the Indigenous Code by giving French citizenship to a small number of Muslims.

From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the " restoration of the Algerian state – sovereign, democratic and social – within the framework of the principles of Islam.

Category: Algerian Muslims

Outlining the past evils of colonial rule and denouncing continued suppression, the manifesto demanded specifically an Algerian constitution that would guarantee immediate and effective political participation and legal equality for Muslims.

Instead, the French administration in 1944 instituted a reform package, based on the 1936 Viollette Plan, that granted full French citizenship to certain categories of " meritorious " Algerian Muslims — military officers and decorated veterans, university graduates, government officials, and members of the Legion of Honor — who numbered about 60, 000.

Abbas gained the support of the AUMA and formed Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty ( Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté, AML ) to work for Algerian autonomie with equal rights for both Europeans and Muslims.

By this time, over 350, 000 Algerian Muslims ( out of a total Algerian Muslim population of nine million ) were working in France to support their relatives in Algeria, and many thousands more worked in towns.

This law called for the creation of an Algerian Assembly with one house representing Europeans and " meritorious " Muslims, and the other representing the remaining more than 8 million Muslims.

This name started to be used commonly shortly before the end of the Algerian independence war in 1962, while formerly they were simply called Algerians, whereas Muslim people of Algeria were called Muslims or Indigenous.

In May 1958 Pieds-Noirs demonstration for French Algeria, including many Muslims, occupied an Algerian government building.

The Army was one of the few avenues of advancement for Algerian Muslims under colonial rule and voluntary enlistment was common.

Category: Algerian Muslims

Category: Algerian Muslims

The Popular Front initiated the 1936 Blum-Viollette proposal, which was supposed to grant French citizenship to a minority of Algerian Muslims.

Under Vichy France, but only in Algeria ( not in metropolitan France ) this s code was also used to register Jews, Algerian Muslims, foreigners, or ill-defined people.

Category: Algerian Muslims

The phrase sometimes extends to cover all Algerian Muslims who supported the French presence in Algeria during this war.

In this sense, the term Harki now refers to a distinct ethnocultural group, i. e. French Muslims, distinct from other French of Algerian origin or Algerians living in France.

It was a recurring claim by the French authorities that more Algerian Muslims were serving with their forces than with those of the nationalist Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ).

On 5 October 1961, the prefecture of police, whose chief was Maurice Papon, announced in a press statement the introduction of a curfew from 8. 30 p. m. to 5. 30 a. m. in Paris and its suburbs for " Algerian Muslim workers ", " French Muslims " and " French Muslims of Algeria " ( all three terms used by Papon, although the approximately 150, 000 Algerians living at the time in Paris were officially considered French and possessed a French identity card ).

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

Meanwhile Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior to French colonization, at the same time that they have contributed to the preservation of the authentic values of Algeria.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

The Algerian pastry also contains Tunisian or French cakes and it is marketed.

The French Army used existing mounted squadrons of Spahis to a limited extent for patrol work during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ) and the Swiss Army maintained a mounted dragoon regiment for combat purposes until 1973.

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

On 12 June 1830 Polignac, King Charles X's minister, exploited the weakness of the Algerian Dey by invading Algeria and establishing French rule in Algeria.

Taking advantage of liberalization by the unpopular ruling leftist / nationalist FLN regime, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men.

* 1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.

Sartre served as a conscript in the French Army from 1929 to 1931 and he later argued in 1959 that each French person was responsible for the collective crimes during the Algerian War of Independence.

When Morocco supported the Algerian independence movement of the Emir Abd al-Qadir, it was heavily defeated by the French in 1844 and made to abandon its support.

* 1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.

* 1954 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

It was not until 1999 that the French National Assembly recognised the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 )— previously a " public order operation "— as a " war " proper.

Joseph Charbit, Colbo: Paris ( Hebrew and French, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian traditions )

* Special Administrative Section, a French army civil-military cooperation unit in the Algerian War

* Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ) – An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army.

The French Fourth Republic in particular faced conflict on two fronts within the French Union, the Algerian War and the First Indo-China War.

The war involved a large number of rival movements which fought against each other at different moments, such as on the independence side, when the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) fought viciously against the Algerian National Movement ( MNA ) in Algeria and in the Café Wars on the French mainland ; on the pro-French side, during its final months, when the conflict evolved into a civil war between pro-French hardliners in Algeria and supporters of General Charles de Gaulle.

In the final stages of the negotiations in Algiers, the chief Algerian mediator was the Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed Benyahia who interacted primarily with Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher from the U. S. side.

In this way, he could gain vital supplies from U. S. dumps on the Algerian side of the western arm of the mountains, eliminate the Allies ′ ability to attack the coastal corridor linking Mareth and Tunis, while at the same time threatening the southern flank of 1st Army.

The Moroccan border with Algeria is just east of Oujda, on the other side of the border is the Algerian town of Maghnia.

To carry out his national service, de Broca went to Algeria during the Algerian War where he worked in the French army's film section for three years and saw a side of life which he disliked and wished to view in a different, more eccentric, light.

On her mother's side, she is descended from Italian-Sephardi Jews on Corsica ; and, on her father's side, from Algerian Jews .< ref >

This included on one side French police and military personnel ; and on the other side various French ( pro-independence, often communist ) and Algerian fighters, for attacks on civilian targets such as cafés, which killed 3, 000 civilians.

Antar Yahia (, born 21 March 1982 ) is an Algerian professional footballer who is currently playing for Bundesliga side 1.