Name: 【TED】Karima Bennoune: The side of terrorism that doesn't make headlines
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from the Armed Islamic Group with a paring knife?

to an unrelenting pounding on the front door.

It was a season as described by a local paper

to the bullets of fundamentalist assassins.

My father's university teaching of Darwin

from the head of the so-called
Islamic Salvation Front,

who denounced Dad as an advocate of biologism

would neither identify himself nor go away.

So my father tried to get the police on the phone,

of armed extremism that had already claimed

and took up a position inside the entryway.

When I look back now, I think
that that was the moment

that set me on the path was to writing a book

Untold Stories from the Fight
Against Muslim Fundamentalism."

to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage

to find out how they fought fundamentalism

and how they coped with the attendant risks.

but other families were so much less lucky,

and that was the thought
that motivated my research.

which simply said, "Consider yourself dead."

Subsequently, Algeria's
fundamentalist armed groups

would murder as many as 200,000 civilians

and as terrible as all of these events became,

the international community largely ignored them.

Finally, my father, an Algerian
peasant's son turned professor,

was forced to stop teaching at the university

was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals,

and he continued to publish pointed criticisms,

and sometimes of the government they battled.

the terrorists' radical break with the true Islam

These were words that could get you killed.

the popular struggle against Muslim fundamentalism

This remains true today, nearly 20 years later.

defying those militants that you don't hear about,

and those people need our support to succeed.

that Muslims generally condone terrorism.

Some on the right think this because they view

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【TED】Karima Bennoune: The side of terrorism that doesn't make headlines

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