Comments by "Omer عمر" (@Omer1996E.C) on "ALGERIA | A French Apology?" video.

@wasssssuppppppp you are never experiencing the bad things that happened back then. Algerians are. Algeria was much richer comparatively, that before the French colonial invasion, Algeria was loaning France, although France held much more colonies in the Americas. Then France invaded Algeria, abolished the loans, took the treasury, killed the rulers, rich people and educated populations, humiliated Algerian women, nuked it's deserts and experienced nuclear impact on human by Algerian bodies near villages, and those people are still suffering. In fact, many parts of the effiel tower were brought from Algeria. They killed, imprisoned and tortured educated people of Algeria. Imagine just all these never happened. Ok, imagine only Algerian money wasn't stolen and was invested, there is a very high chance Algerians would be richer than the french people in per capita terms. How devastating, and still French politicians call Algeria (a country created by France) rejecting the fact that Algeria existed many centuries ago and humiliating Algerians in France.
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@yasser7139 I'm not telling you to focus on the past, but not to deny it. Don't humiliate yourselves, always know that France is never a scale to measure prosperity or human rights things
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@Exiledschizo no wonder. Even I have hostility to France for what they have done in Algeria, although I'm not Algerian. This is a crime against humanity, muslims, arabic speaking African people
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@Jorjgasm you were considering the immigration laws as a compensation to a century and decades of harsh colonial rule. If you're asking me about religious freedom, are you serious? Like about the hijab in school and many workplaces, the discrimination women face, the religious leaders, preachers and even religious students face discrimination from French legal and security systems. Even parents are not allowed to teach their children to be religious, I personally know people who were punished because their child refused to do something (completely normal) that he found to be not good. They were punished for it. They are the center of hate debate before elections and their religion is always under attack and hate speech called "freedom of speech" while scolding Emmanuel Macron is punished. Then every Algerian who makes a crime is called a terrorist, while every white is not, double standard, hell, even crimes committed by a Muslim is considered Islamic and muslims should condemn it even if it wasn't made by a practicing/religious Muslim, imagine the French president apologizing for a crime done by a Bulgarian. Religious issues in Algeria is more respected to foreigners than in France, so called "the land of liberty" by many
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Indeed, we are suffering
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@uschurch they were forced. Either die, or pay. This was the thing, it was and still is harsh. It is still colonialism. You Europeans support it because it supports your economies and currency. We are suffering from it. You don't know the feeling of living on 2000 usd a year. You get at least 20 times more income a year
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Omega it's not only a matter of patriotism, but also humanitarianism. May these colonial countries pay the fee from their destructions
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@TheJalipa you are trying to justify oppression and colonialism. A typical European reaction to any kind of criticism
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This is a clear lie. There was no any time in Algerian colonial era where majority of the Algerian people supported the colonial rule
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@aa6dcc nothing to do with Algeria? Do you know if those wealth of Algeria was invested at 7 percent, it would have made Algeria a much richer and stable country with educated citizens. This isn't only the case in Algeria, but all of the middle east and north Africa. This region is a mess just because of the western imperialist nations
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@marathonman1205 actually, also the almoravids and almohads controlled Iberia, they are Morrocans
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France of today is the same as before. You can see it from French people racism, colonial mindset and their legacy that they are proud of
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@yasser7139 انت جزائري؟
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It's surprising and upsetting how most comments are biased toward France or try to justify it by some means
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@henrydelabareyre8617 how ignorant are you! Is this what they teach you in schools? I'm wondering. France never made Algeria better comparatively. Before colonization, Algeria was richer than France, that France took loans from Algeria, even though France had colonies in the Americans, then after the French conquest, the debts were abolished by the French and the treasury was stolen, educated people were murdered so that Algerians remain reliant on French and much more. Algeria got out worse, plus, how can you justify the existence of French colonists in Algeria??? those French colonists robbed Algeria before their properties were reclaimed. They should have stayed in France in the first place. How Barbaric are you, disgusting
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@Jorjgasm this is stupidity. France is accepting Algerians because they are good, educated, cheap, French speaking labour forces. If it was really accepting for Algerian good, they would have gave Algerians more freedom, especially in religious terms that they lack
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@aa6dcc you're completely ignorant about colonialism, especially about middle east and north African colonization
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@seneca983 with that, I agree
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I met many Algerians, many say that they don't like French people (not necessarily hate them), and France is a parasitic country, look at sahel African countries, they are kept poor by the French, isn't this a good reason to keep france as a normal country than an ally?
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They united, not invaded each other. There is a difference
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@lfmsmka nobody launched an attack. It was the central government trying to avoid division. The government composes of northern and Southern states representatives. Even today the temporary capital city is in the south, with a rebellion in the north
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Democracy is a mess in the middle east. I don't believe in it, as well as majority of Middle Easterns, according to statistics
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@cricketman1322 indeed, but the west doesn't want to leave us. They support dictators we don't like, but opposes the one we likes. It's not only in MENA, but also in all of Africa, without exception
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@maginot2u did you know that Algeria was richer than France that France took loans from Algeria, then they invaded and they stole Algerian treasury, killed their educated and warrior people, demolished many of their infrastructures, never paid back their loans that are 2 centuries old, and experimented their nuclear weapons on their people and lands and much more. And how can they call themselves humanitarians? Imagine stealing 10 dollars and repaying back a counterfeited 1 dollar. This is what france did to Algeria
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Slavery? Uncomparable, slavery in France was worse than slavery in Algeria, plus, atrocities of France overwhelmingly exceeds anything between these two countries Don't apologize, we don't accept any good from you anyway. France stole their treasury, killed their educated and warrior people, demolished many of their infrastructures, never paid French loans that are 2 centuries old, and experimented their nuclear weapons on Algerian people and lands and much more. And they call themselves humanitarians?
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@ratatosk8935 first, 1.25 if very flawed, when that man (I forgot his name) made the calculation, he lacked many other informations. And from these 1.25, there was some European and non European Muslims and jews who were counted too. Second, Algerian slavery is never like French one, there were whole articles that stated rights to slaves, and they weren't called slaves, because the word wasn't appropriate to use in the Islamic world, and still isn't Third, France provoked the piracy first by expelling jews, who also were leaders of many Muslim pirate ships. And France much more than they ever lost feom Algeria. Stole Algerian treasury, private properties, killed educated people, humiliated women, experimented nukes on Algerian people and lands, destroyed infrastructures and devastated it's economy. Along with enslaving many Algerians and stealing Algerian resources, including many of effiel tower components
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@ratatosk8935 correct me if I am wrong
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@hkchan1339 no, it's from the most rated comments
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@someguy3766 this is completely stupid. France stole from Algeria much more, let me give you a glimpse of it France was poorer and more unstable than Algeria that they even borrowed money from them, but later they invaded them and abolished the debts, stole the treasury, experimented their nuclear arsenal near Algerian villages to know it's effects on human body, and it's effects are still present. And let us not forget the 1.5 million martyr only in a war. I can't write the atrocities and humiliation from it. It's just indescribable
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@someguy3766 it is incomparable. The Algerian piracy also enslaved Algerians and iy was triggered by Muslims and jews being kicked from their homelands. So they made their revenge, especially the jews (Muslims and jews worked together) And, isn't Algerian slavery and minerals stolen (effiel tower has components stolen from Algeria too) enough for these things???
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Muslim? Regarding the Armenian genocide, muslims condemn it and we call it unislamic. It was the ottoman empire killing arabs, kurds, Armenians and others during it's last years to try to stop internal problems as external wars were devastating them.
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Don't apologize, we don't accept any good from you anyway. You stole our treasury, killed our educated and warrior people, demolished many of our infrastructures, you never paid your loans that are 2 centuries old, and experimented your nuclear weapons on our people and lands and much more. And you call yourselves humanitarians?
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What's the purpose of apologize then?
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As france is a democratic country, it is represented by it's representatives
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Indeed. Algerians experienced what only few world countries did
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First, it was started by Europeans. Second, the atrocities and economic devastation of Algeria, which was richer than France is extreme. Extremism can be simplified with French aggression
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@seneca983 is it comparable? France causing all these atrocities to Algeria? They stole, enslaved, experimented nukes, killed educated people, humiliated women, and tried to colonize it by putting their people And the results are still felt now
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If france repaid for the material loss, let alone the educated people who were murdered, it would be paying at least hundreds of billions of euros, France stole the treasury, took loans to from Algeria before 2 centuries and never repaid, demolished infrastructures, nationalized Algerians properties, experimented their nuclear arsenal on Algerian people and lands and much more. If only the money was invested, it would at least be in hundreds of billions. Algeria would be the richest country of Africa
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It never makes up for these years of colonial rule that killed educated people, stole the treasury, fractured it's territories, experimented nuclear weapons on their people and lands and devastated it's economy. Millions were killed and other millions were robbed, the country was impaired, let alone the 2 centuries old loans france never paid as we know Algeria was richer than France, if these resources were invested, now Algeria would be richer than France.
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@Mauri7782 this is because Morocco was the main gate to European scientific development for its contributions in Spain, that later became the world superpower because of it
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