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This relates to many things, including our normal subject matter. It's amazing how normally we will accept abnormal things, if they are presented to us as normal things.
Case in point; the movie Casablanca, I have never sat through the entire movie, but I have been looking a parts of it for at least 100 years. When suddenly it dawned om me: Casablanca is a Spanish word meaning "House White", now why would a North African country - Morocco - have a city with a Spanish name?
Off to Wiki I went.
Casablanca (Arabic: ad-Dār al-Bayḍā’; Berber: Anfa; local informal name: Kaẓa) is the largest city in Morocco, located in the central-western part of the country bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest city in the Maghreb, as well as one of the largest and most important cities in Africa, both economically and demographically.
Casablanca is Morocco's chief port and one of the largest financial centers in the African continent. The 2012 census (adjusted with recent numbers) recorded a population of about 4 million in the prefecture of Casablanca. Casablanca is considered the economic and business center of Morocco, although the national political capital is Rabat.
The leading Moroccan companies and international corporations doing Moroccan business have their headquarters and main industrial facilities in Casablanca. Recent industrial statistics show Casablanca retains its historical position as the main industrial zone of the country. The Port of Casablanca is one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the largest port of North Africa. It is also the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy.
Etymology The original name of the city was Anfa, in Berber language, by at least the seventh century BC. After the Portuguese took control of Anfa in the 15th century AD, they rebuilt it, changing the name to Casa Branca. It derives from the Portuguese word combination meaning "White House" (blanca "white", casa "house"). The present name, which is the Spanish version (pronounced: [kasaˈβlaŋka]), came when the Portuguese kingdom was integrated to the Spanish kingdom. During the French protectorate in Morocco, the name remained Casablanca (pronounced: [kɑzɑblɑ̃kɑ]). In the 18th century, an earthquake destroyed most of the town. It was rebuilt by the Sultan who changed the name into the local Arabic which is A-ddar Al Baidaa, although Arabic also has its own version of Casablanca (كازابلانكا, Kāzāblānkā). The city is still nicknamed Casa by many locals and outsiders to the city. In many other cities with a different dialect, it is called A-ddar Al-Bida, instead.
A famous boulevard inside Casablanca City is called "Anfa Boulevard". Anfa is generally considered the early "old original city" of Casablanca; it is legally a prefecture (district) with half a million city inhabitants.
Early history The area which is today Casablanca was founded and settled by Berbers by at least the seventh century BC. It was used as a port by the Phoenicians and later the Romans. In his book Wasf Afriquia, Al-Hassan al-Wazzan refers to ancient Casablanca as "Anfa", a great city founded in the Berber kingdom of Barghawata in 744 AD. He believed Anfa was the most "prosperous city on the Atlantic Coast because of its fertile land." Barghawata rose as an independent state around this time, and continued until it was conquered by the Almoravids in 1068. Following the defeat of the Barghawata in the 12th century, Arab tribes of Hilal and Sulaym descent settled in the region, mixing with the local Berbers, which led to a global Arabicizing. During the 14th century, under the Merinids, Anfa rose in importance as a port. The last of the Merinids was ousted by a popular revolt in 1465.
in 1640, Casablanca came under fully Portuguese control once again. The Europeans eventually abandoned the area completely in 1755 following an earthquake which destroyed most of the town.
The town was finally reconstructed by Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah (1756–1790), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and an ally of George Washington, with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium. The town was called الدار البيضاء ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ, the Arabic translation of the Spanish Casa Blanca.
French conquest In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased (the British, in return, began importing Morocco's national drink, gunpowder tea). By the 1860s, around 5,000 residents were there, and the population grew to around 10,000 by the late 1880s. Casablanca remained a modestly sized port, with a population reaching around 12,000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in the town, at first administrators within a sovereign sultanate, in 1906. By 1921, this rose to 110,000, largely through the development of shanty towns.
French rule and influence In June 1907, the French attempted to build a light railway near the port and passing through a graveyard. As act of resistance and protestation, the locals attacked the French, riots ensued, causing a few soldiers to be wounded and one general to be killed. In response, the French attacked by ship, bombarding the city from the coast, and landing troops inside the town, which caused severe damage to the town and 15,000 dead and wounded bodies. The French claimed that it was to restore order there. This effectively began the process of colonization, although French control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910. Under the French rule, Muslim anti-Jewish riots occurred in 1908.
The famous 1942 film Casablanca (starring Humphrey Bogart) underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers. The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Spaniard, Czech, Norwegian, Austrian, Bulgarian, Russian, and some other nationalities).
Europeans formed almost half the population. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A bomb attack on 25 December 1953 (Christmas Day) caused 16 deaths.
Morocco gained independence from France on 2 March 1956.
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^But then I thought about all of the beautiful paintings of Black Berbers of North Africa I had seen - and no longer see - and I wondered how do they fit in - or not fit in?
Turk, Portugese, Spanish, French? . . Mohammed V King of Morocco - was Sultan of Morocco from 1927–53, exiled from 1953–55, where he was again recognized as Sultan upon his return, and King from 1957 to 1961.
King Hassan II - 9 July 1929 – 23 July 1999) was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. He was the eldest son of Mohammed V, Sultan, then King of Morocco (1909–1961), and his second wife, Lalla Abla bint Tahar (1909–1992).
Mohammed VI - born 21 August 1963) is the current king of Morocco. He ascended to the throne on 23 July 1999 upon the death of his father, King Hassan II.
General Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean (Kaïd) KCMG (1848–1920) was a Scottish soldier, and instructor to the Moroccan Army.
He began his military career in the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot in 1869. He was dispatched overseas to fight the Fenians in Canada. In 1877, Maclean went to Morocco and began his career as an army instructor for the Sultan Mulai Hassan. He gained the trust of the Sultan of Morocco and his successor Moulay Abdelaziz through his service and fought against opposing tribes throughout Morocco. During his career, he was kidnapped and held for ransom after a failed first attempt. He visited the forbidden city of Tafilalt, and eventually became commander of the Sultan of Morocco's Army.
Although he was loyal to his employer to a fault, he was regarded as an unofficial British agent in the United Kingdom. He was in June 1901 appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) by King Edward VII when he was attached to a Special diplomatic mission from Morocco to the United Kingdom.
He was physically large and used this to his advantage when disciplining insubordinates. Although maintaining his Scottish personality and expert bagpipe skill, he adopted Moorish costume.
Various heirlooms of the Kaïd Sir Harry Maclean, including his ceremonial sword, pistol and Matriculation of Arms are now housed for the Clan Maclean Heritage Trust at the Isle of Mull Museum.
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The interesting thing about the picture is the position of the Sultan of Morocco (Supposedly the KING of Morocco), and the Berber chief.
As we can clearly see from the picture above: Thami El Glaoui was superior in rank to the Sultan of Morocco. Throughout modern history, there seems to have been several Albino Moroccan Sultans. These may have been of Turkic, Portuguese, Spanish, or French extraction - all of whom ruled Morocco to one extant or the other over that period. But as we can see from the picture, the Black Berber Chief was still supreme.
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^And that's what makes Blacks of the Western Hemisphere (U.S. Canada, Caribbean - Hispanics are still confused) so special.
In the face of overwhelming abuse and pressure, they did not forsake their majestic Blackness, rather, they clung to it and uplifted it. Innately knowing that they were the best the Human race had to offer, and must be saved at all costs!
Yes there were some who choose Albinism for their future generations - but not that many.
ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 23RD, 1997, following his groundbreaking victory in the US Masters, sports celebrity Tiger Woods incurred the wrath of many African American traditionalists when he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. During the broadcast, Winfrey asked the then 21-year-old golfer whether it bothered him to be called “African American”. Woods replied, “It does...I'm just who I am, whoever you see in front of you.”
TIGER WOODS INVENTS 'CABLINASIAN' The golfing champion went on to state that as a child he’d invented the term, “Cablinasian” to describe his parents multi-ethnicity and nationality — a mix of half Asian (Chinese and Thai), one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American and one-eighth Dutch. He’d adopted the term as a way of honouring his mother Kultida (of Thai, Chinese and Dutch ancestry) as well as respecting all aspects of his cultural and racial heritage.
Woods disclosure riled many within the African American community because they saw him as the first black winner of the US Masters — a sports star who was one of their own, whose success in breaking down golf's racial barriers was a source of racial pride for them. Woods, by declaring himself 'unblack', had stripped all that away.
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: But even lost Sheep sometimes find their way home:
where is home?
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods's mother Kultida (obviously a black name)
Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods
Earl Woods' mother, Maude (Carter) Woods, was of mixed African and European ancestry, and was lighter-skinned. The skin tone of Earl's siblings ranged from fairly dark to very light; he remembered that his grandmother Carter, a Mulatto, was "the prettiest blonde you ever saw." There was a family joke about an alleged Chinese ancestor who "didn't stay on his railroad job", but there is no record of any Chinese ancestry. However, the family is said to have some Native American ancestry.
His father was mixed like Caid Brahim only his mother was black
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Great breakdown of silly Africans and their ignorant attraction to Albinos, and one reason why Africans managed to lose a whole continent. Shameful! But Africans have digressed to such an extreme extent, they can't even feel remorse or shame for their stupidity. It's much easier to just post "feel-good" nonsense, instead of taking responsibility, learning from the failure, and growing stronger from the confession.
Of course, they have a valid excuse because at the time, they had no real understanding of genetics and the long term repercussions of their ignorant actions.
However, where they really went wrong was not comprehending how these same women were used as spies and traps, set by those who conspired to usurp African kingdoms from within.
Sad that even today, Negroes still don't understand the ignorance of their sinful, lust driven blind urges that will over time, give them OCA defective descendants, or even Negro females who bleach their skin without understanding how they are destroying their melanocytes, their immunity systems, and their health, just for misguided cosmetic justification.
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] So where did THESE come from?
Turk, Portugese, Spanish, French? . . Mohammed V King of Morocco - was Sultan of Morocco from 1927–53, exiled from 1953–55, where he was again recognized as Sultan upon his return, and King from 1957 to 1961.
Mohammed V King of Morocco
No need to speculate just look it up:
Mohammed V was one of the sons of Sultan Yusef, who was enthroned by the French in September 1912 and his wife Lalla Yaqut, who was of Turkish origin
His father Yusef:
Yusef was born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I and his fifth wife, Ruqiya, a Circassian lady from Constantinople. He was the youngest of Sultan Hassan I's sons. He inherited the throne from his brother, Sultan Abdelhafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez (1912), which made Morocco a French protectorate. He was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty.
Yusef's reign was turbulent and marked with frequent uprisings against Spain and France. The most serious of these was a Berber uprising in the Rif Mountains, led by Abd el-Krim and the uprising of Sahraoui tribes, led by the son of Ma al-'Aynayn, Ahmed al-Hiba.
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They love to mix it up in North Africa
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Over the last 1000 years Ashkenazi's and Sephardic (Turks) "Ews" have been expelled from over 50 countries around the world, and where did these rejects relocate more than anywhere else?
Mohammed V was one of the sons of Sultan Yusef, who was enthroned by the French in September 1912 and his wife Lalla Yaqut, who was of Turkish origin
His father Yusef:
Yusef was born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I and his fifth wife, Ruqiya, a Circassian lady from Constantinople.
(The Circassians are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia (a region in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea), many of whom were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century.
He was the youngest of Sultan Hassan I's sons. He inherited the throne from his brother, Sultan Abdelhafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez (1912), which made Morocco a French protectorate. He was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty.
. REALLY LIONESS?
So what about THIS???
. Alaouite dynasty - Wiki:
The Alaouite or Alawite dynasty is the current Moroccan royal family. The name Alaouite comes from the ‘Alī of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib , whose descendant Sharif ibn Ali became Prince of Tafilalt in 1631. His son Mulay Al-Rashid (1664–1672) was able to unite and pacify the country. The Alaouite family claim descent from Muhammad through his daughter Fāṭimah az-Zahrah and her husband ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
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Mike what about the period of North Africa when the Vikings and the Germanic vandals/Visigoths forced themselves into that part of the world, as well as the effects of the Barbary pirate trans-mediterranean slave trade of European slaves, and the Roman rule of North Africa and the albino slaves they also exchanged in the region?
I think that you should cover those aspects as well.....
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quote:Originally posted by Mindovermatter: Mike what about the period of North Africa when the Vikings and the Germanic vandals/Visigoths forced themselves into that part of the world, as well as the effects of the Barbary pirate trans-mediterranean slave trade of European slaves, and the Roman rule of North Africa and the albino slaves they also exchanged in the region?
I think that you should cover those aspects as well.....
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TURKS - Real identity stealers, and they don't even come from PODS!
At least I don't think so.
^As you can all see:
Turks became....
Persians,
Arabs,
Hebrews/Jews (Khazar Turks),
Egyptians,
Berbers,
Greeks (Yes - many modern Greeks are actually Turks).
Oddly though, I don't recall Turks ever claiming to be the ancient people of Anatolia or Byzantium (the area they renamed Turkey). I guess they felt that would just be Toooo much.
BUT THEY USED TO CLAIM THAT THEY WERE "HUNS".
The Hephthalites, Ephthalites, or Ye-tai were a confederation of nomadic and settled people in Central Asia who expanded their domain westward in the 5th century. It is not clear whether the Hephthalites or a related people, the Xionites, were synonymous with the White Huns (Sanskrit Sveta Huna).
There are several theories regarding the origins of the White Huns, with the Turkic and Iranian theories being the most prominent.
According to the Encyclopaedia Iranica and Encyclopaedia of Islam, The tribes in question deliberately called themselves "Huns" in order to frighten their enemies.
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There is many stories on that page, is this the one you are referring to? .
Headline:
'This picture says white supremacy has won': Critics accuse black US actor of 'colorism' in Christmas photo - but can you even tell what he supposedly did wrong? .
Lance Gross, who is best known for his role on the TBS sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne, lashed out at 'ignorant' critics on social media on Tuesday who accused him of colorism. Over the holiday weekend, Gross posted a photo of himself and his friends with their female companions. Social media users accused him of colorism because they said a woman sitting off to the side alone had a darker complexion. Gross is seen above on the right with his wife, Rebecca.
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What's your issue with tattoos? as a form of body modification its old,I get some don't like it but what's the problem?
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Mike and I are old school. we have a problem with Saggy pants and ****too****many tats.
It is not art it is disfgurement
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The black girl has that "woe is me look"--sitting alone at the side with none of the black guys flopping over her--all relaxed.
Moroccan syndrome--one would say. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Pele, Usain Bolt(vehemently criticized for falling being ensnared), Mo Farah(great Somali runner), Eddie Murphy, etc.--all doing massive money transfers to the other side.
Even impressive black intellectuals are caught in the trap of lactification. Frantz Fanon, Cheikh Anta Diop, Richard Wright, Kwame Nkrumah,etc.
African heads of state fall for it too: Senghor(Senegal), Ali Bongo(Gabon), Alassan Ouattara(Ivory Coast), and Eduardo Dos Santos(Angola).
Frantz Fanon wrote 64 years ago in Black Skin, White Masks: I wish to be acknowledged not as black but as white. Now- and this is a form of recognition that Hegel had not envisaged --who but a white woman can do this for me? By loving me she proves that I am worthy of white love. I am loved like a white man. Her love takes me onto the noble road that leads to total realization. I marry white culture, white beauty, white whiteness.
Today, of course, many go that route but just up to the margins of whiteness so as to be ready with the retort--"But, she's not white."
Are Fanon's observations true today but at the subconscious level?
On the flip side whiteness tolerates blackness only up to a certain point. The ideal black for whiteness is the mulatto. Hence, the enormous popularity and wealth of a Beyonce who just cannot match any of the great black singers in terms of voice appeal. On South African TV the female news announcers are though Xhosa are very light in complexion.
So Mike, why are black men so in love with "Albino" or near-"Albino' females? In the U.S.,one is told that a lot of authentic black females are just internally sad and lonely on account of the "lure of lactification".
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And that was O.J's doomsday. He was obsessed with lactification to the point of vengeful murder.
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And great singer Michael Jackson had it too. He never wanted to see himself replicated as black. Maybe he was negrophobic.
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@ mike & xy my point is if those things became standard way of look would even matter on someone's ability to run industries or a nation?
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quote:Originally posted by Thereal: @ mike & xy my point is if those things became standard way of look would even matter on someone's ability to run industries or a nation?
In my opinion, Tattoos are like "Head Shaping", Tooth Sharpening, Lip Plates, Ear plugs, Scarification, etc, etc. These are the infatuations and fascinations of the simple-minded seeking a place of uniqueness for themselves.
The problem is that these people lack the mental ability to think/look ahead: to consider the possible health costs, and the future appropriateness of that particular look.
So whatever the future brings, they are locked in!
Intelligent people don't do stupid things like that! They cherish the freedom to adapt and change direction, depending on circumstance.
Hence the reference to Businessmen, leaders, fathers - all people we expect to have good sense.
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quote:Originally posted by lamin: By loving me she proves that I am worthy of white love. I am loved like a white man. Her love takes me onto the noble road that leads to total realization. I marry white culture, white beauty, white whiteness.
. WOW, WOW, WOW.
PROFOUND!
I had heard of him, but never read him.
You read that sort of profound truth, yet can't accept Black Europeans?
Clearly you are a Mole.
No matter - many years ago I read a quote from Camus, where he states that the revolutionary is not a revolutionary in the depths of oppression, he only becomes a revolutionary when he can see the first lights of freedom - paraphrasing.
Would you happen to know which book that is in?
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: ^But then I thought about all of the beautiful paintings of Black Berbers of North Africa I had seen - and no longer see - and I wondered how do they fit in - or not fit in?
^ Here is a slave for sale with her attendant, another female slave with the metal collar sitting down
^Similarly a harem slave of the Ottomans Turks being washed by a black woman, another slave, shackles on her ankles
^ The painting called "The Slave market", 1871 also by Jean Leon Gerome . The master is sitting in the chair above, the various slaves of various ethnicities at bottom
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. And that Boys and Girls, is what happened to Coastal Blacks in North Africa.
Some may be dumbfounded and may ask how is this possible...
black father defended his daughter against her white mother after the woman went on a racist rant about her child wearing cornrows.
“I’m so pissed off,” the woman—identified only as Sam—wrote to Nick Harris, who posted the conversation on Facebook.
Harris replied that he thought her daughter “looks great,” adding “she doesn’t look ‘too black.’”
Sam replied, “no she looks black and she’s not!”
Harris reminded Sam that her daughter is black, telling her, “your child is mixed sweetie. She’s half white and half black. Her skin tone doesn’t affect there race.”
Sam said Harris can “go ahead treat her like a black kid and I’ll treat her how I want,” before adding, “U stupid.”
After a back-and-forth, where Harris explained that he “daughter is half black” and “will always be half black,” the woman replies “I shouldn’t have had a kid with u.”
quote:Originally posted by Bonampak420: After a back-and-forth, where Harris explained that he “daughter is half black” and “will always be half black,” the woman replies “I shouldn’t have had a kid with u.”
What you are featuring is merely a spat between feuding bi-racial parents.
When Bo Derek came out in her cornrows all the albino boys got a hard-on.
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The Frantz Fanon quote I posted is very interesting He said:
quote: Note that there is nothing in common between the black man in this chapter and the black man who wants to sleep with the white woman. The latter wants to be White. Or has a thirst for revenge...
Two different motives, each one entirely opposite to the other
The latter wants to be White.
Or has a thirst for revenge
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NO ONE BOTHERED TO INTRODUCE THE YOUNGSTERS TO FANON.
Frantz Omar Fanon 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique born Afro-Caribbean Medical Doctor, Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.
In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of Independence from France, and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. For more than five decades, the life and works of Frantz Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other radical political organizations in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States. In What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought, leading Africana scholar and contemporary philosopher Lewis R. Gordon remarked that "Fanon's contributions to the history of ideas are manifold. He is influential not only because of the originality of his thought but also because of the astuteness of his criticisms...He developed a profound social existential analysis of antiblack racism, which led him to identify conditions of skewed rationality and reason in contemporary discourses on the human being."
He wrote numerous books, including The Wretched of the Earth. The Wretched of the Earth focused on the necessary role Fanon thinks violence must play in decolonization struggles. The point he is trying to get across is that violence is needed in order to colonize a nation. No nation has been colonized peacefully or without a revolt.
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In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of Independence from France, and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. (FLN)
The six historical Leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN): Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi.
Mike aren't these Turks ?
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