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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Caraway_Lad on 2025-08-03 14:24:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Emil Abdelkader, Islamic leader of a resistance movement against French occupation in Algeria. He later prevented a massacre of Christians in Damascus, and France awarded him the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur for this act.