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Arafat compares Oslo Accords to Muhammad's temporary agreement

 "When the Prophet made the peace of Hudaybiya, [Muhammad's followers] Omar Ibn al Khattab and Ali Ibn Abi Talib said: "How can we accept an agreement like that?" "How can we accept such humiliation of our religion, Oh, Messenger of Allah?" And when we signed the agreement in Oslo if anyone has an objection to that agreement, I have a hundred."
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Note: Arafat compares the Oslo Accords with the Hudaybiya Pact, a ten-year peace treaty signed by Muhammad with the tribes of Mecca when his army was weak. Two-years later when Muhammad’s army was stronger he went and conquered Mecca.

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