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[edit] Revert deleted references to Harkis as "Muslim" auxiliaries

An editor has deleted all references to Harkis as Muslims. I have reverted the deletions because, until the end of French rule in 1962, Algeria was officially part of France and approximately one million Algerians were of European origin. The noun "Harki" is a generally accepted designation for (i) Muslims who served as auxiliaries with the French Army during the Algerian War and sometimes by extension (ii) those Muslims who supported French rule. The European pied-noirs served in separate auxiliary and regular units within the French forces and were never known as Harkis. To delete the adjective "Muslim" from this article serves no purpose except to confuse the history of this period. 192.188.71.2 05:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I included mention of the Evolvé segment of the Algerian Harki population. Evolvés are North Africans whom converted to Christianity from Islam and/or adapted most culturally European French elements, thus the term meant these Algerians/North Africans changed national and cultural identities from their conversion into Roman Catholic Christianity and allegiance with France.

If you want a reliable source for my claims of this subgroup of Harki, consult the 1979 Encyclopedia Britannica Micropaedia, it had a small description to the Evolvés of North Africa. But 5 percent of North Africans under French rule were Christian and they refused to "return" to the Islamic faith after independence.

Evolvés are sometimes included with the Harki by the Algerian government whom treated them lesser as political refugees without the right to return to Algeria, and the Evolvé are among the Algerian-French community, but are thrown into the primarily Muslim Harki because of their ethnic origins.

The Harki indicates not all Algerians were against France, nor they are entirely Muslim (although 90-95 percent of Algerians are) and you find a small porportion of Harkis or Evolvés were present in Metropolitian France for over a century (note the large North African communities of Marseille and Montpellier). + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 17:26, 25 April 2008 (UTC)