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...David J. Gorin ’03 (“Why Protect Arafat?” April 16) makes the ignorant and insulting claim that the Prophet Mohammad made a treaty against a strong tribe and then “[in] the story, Mohammad abrogated the treaty.” Muslims must take issue with Gorin’s accusation that the Prophet unilaterally abrogated the treaty in question. Gorin refers to the Treaty of Hudaybiyah between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. Yasser Arafat compared the Oslo Peace Accords to this treaty in a statement...
...Mecca was to be free of bloodshed, and tribes approaching it for protection were to be allowed safety. The actions of the Quraysh were in clear violation of recognized rights and responsibilities, both under customary tribal law, and under the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. Clearly, it was not the Prophet who unilaterally abrogated the treaty, but the Quraysh who broke...
...Hudaybiyah as a sign of a half-hearted attempt at peace. Rather, Muslims hearing a reference to Hudaybiyah immediately make associations with the need to make peace whenever an enemy makes a credible move toward peace. The fact that stands out in the story for Muslims is that the Prophet actually signed the treaty with the grudging acceptance of his followers in Medina. In doing so, he made compromises, such as not even mentioning God, of not signing his name as “the Prophet of Allah” (as was his custom in other treaties) nd of ignoring...
...half-hearted attempt at peace cannot be justified in Islam. We are taught by the example of the Prophet that the value of an action is determined by the intention behind it, and that honesty and unambiguity in intention is of utmost importance. Treaties are taken very seriously in Islam. The Koran notes that treaties should not be broken, in more than one place. Referring to treaties made with non-Muslims, the Koran explicitly orders in c. 9: v. 04 that unless non-Muslims have failed to abide by the terms of the treaty, all terms and conditions...
Much has been said about misguided misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslims, their traditions and their faith, and the prejudice against Muslims that these misconceptions and stereotypes lead to. Gorin’s unjustified accusation against the Prophet serve only to further such misconceptions. He owes an apology to the Muslims in the community for his slur upon their faith. He also owes an apology to the Harvard community for propagating misleading information that only serves to credit distrust between Muslims and non-Muslims here and in the rest of the world...