During WW2 Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit who was the rector of the Grand mosque of Paris forged papers for an estimated 100 Jews to certify them as Muslim Also he saved the lives of at least five hundred Jews, Making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation
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I wonder how he was viewed after the 1948 war and the Nakba. Was he seen as retroactively helping to enable the genocide of his own people?
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During WW2 Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit who was the rector of the Grand mosque of Paris forged papers for an estimated 100 Jews to certify them as Muslim Also he saved the lives of at least five hundred Jews, Making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation
I wonder how he was viewed after the 1948 war and the Nakba. Was he seen as retroactively helping to enable the genocide of his own people?