I think Islamist extremists learned their beheading habits off the French. I've been wondering this for a while, but I just found it happening in Algeria, with a guillotine, in the 1990s, and Middle Eastern militants reportedly being horrified by this strange new atrocity.
The French #beheaded a lot of people in the Algerian War of independence, prisoners of war if you ask the Algerians and #terrorists if you ask the French.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/guillotines-add-a-barbaric-touch-to-algeria-s-bloodbath-1284778.html #Guillotines add a barbaric touch to Algeria's bloodbath | The Independent #TheIndependent
#colonialism