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Indeed, the Prophet Mohammad’s most important political truce, the Hodibiah Agreement between his rising nation and the leaders of Quraish (the dominant tribe in Mecca at that time), stated clearly that “everybody is free to join the league of Mohammad or the league of Quraish.”

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In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce, no draw, no compromise, only victory or defeat.

Consider the World War I Christmas truce of 1914.

The powers that be had negotiated a brief truce so that soldiers could go out, collect bodies from no-man's-land in between the trench lines.

That truce kept going until the officers had to arrive and said, "We will shoot you unless you go back to trying to kill each other."

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