It is 1990 and across Algeria's universities booths devoted to Islamic students on the campuses of Algeria's universities are set up recruiting student and giving information on Islam. Many of these radicalized Muslims are from rural areas and in their short tie in the cities and urban centers in Algeria they are appalled. Western pop music had infiltrated Algeria in the eighties and pop and disco was listened to more from a urban elite and French-speaking population getting bootleg copies of European acts. One such star was the disgust of Muslims that saw David Bowie and the pop music trying to be spread as an attack on Muslims and men in Algeria.
The radical Muslims in Algeria became much more vocal through seeing the vocalists that the West was trying to spread and open up into Islamic societies and these student groups would often have David Bowie in makeup whenever setting up a booth to discuss the evils of European culture and pop music from the seventies and eighties. The radicals would win an election in Algeria from a population tired of encroaching Western influence that included British freak shows such as Boy George and David Bowie who just died the other day bringing an end to a legacy of music. part of that legacy was inflaming the religious community so much in Algeria that they politically organized and set for a election victory that shocked the ruling elites in both North African and across the Medittearrean world to France and England. The government of Algeria refused to give any power to the elector victors and what followed for a few years was one of the most explosive wars in Algeria's history in the mid-nineties as Algeria was the killing grounds and began the rise of radical Muslims resentful of Western attempts to promote the likes of David Bowie unto their youth.
David Bowie was a poster child for these extreme religious Islamic students in the eighties and the backlash created by those who would promote this eccentric and neurotic freak to Middle Eastern countries such as Algeria was enough to eventually provoke one of the most underrated and vicious civil wars of this era outside of the former Yugoslavia. David Bowie played a huge role in Islamic radicalicalization of huge chunks of North Africa and the Middle East region by a secular force arrogant enough to attempt to dislodge the beliefs and attitudes of other cultures through western pop music many in the industry desperately tried to invade Muslim lands. The backlash against Western globalization and organization through cultural adaptations and economic enforcement continues stronger than ever in Muslim lands to this day and the likes of David Bowie were a huge part of this resistance.
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