Sunnis reject the same federalism for the Shias because they view them as fellow Arabs who have always accepted Sunni rule in the past, and will do so again – unless they have their own government. That is what the new constitution would allow, because the Shia-majority provinces in the south – which contain the greater part of Iraq’s oil reserves – could form their own regional government.
逊尼派也拒绝将同样的封建主义法规用于什叶派，因为他们一直将后者视为阿拉伯兄弟，并曾经接受过逊尼派的统治，而将来也还会重归正道—除非他们有了自己的政府。这正是被新宪法所允许的，因为南部以什叶派为主的省份—伊拉克的大部分油田也位于其中—可以组成他们自己的地方政府。