Some ppl are just mad

[lazzhar]

How do you know these groups, if they existed, were killing in the name of secularism? Where is your proof?

While there were no serious investigations that has taken place until today, we only take what we hear and read in the algerian press during those days as a source of information. On the other hand, as long as I can't give you proof that those "Escadrons" were raging you can't give any proof of the existance of other islamic groups. However I've heard many political personalities speaking about them like Louiza Hanoune among others.

I have always suspected that crimes were not only committed by the islamic extremists but also by the army or factions within the army or the shadowy security service. However, I don't believe for a moment they committed these crimes in the belief of turning Algeria into a secular country but rather for their own self-interest (financial gains and political privileges). Given that the extremists were defeated, why is it that Islam is still enshrined as the state religion in our constitution?

Agreed.