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Can We All Get Along My Op Ed

Juan Cole 03/10/2004

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Can We all Get Along?

My op-ed, Conquering the divide (about Sunni-Shiite divisions), appeared in the Guardian yesterday.

I conclude, Iraq’s future very much depends on whether the Sunni Arabs and Kurds will prove able to accommodate themselves to it, and whether the Shia can and will allay their fears of a tyranny of the Shia majority. Although the interim constitution, with its major concessions to the Kurds and other minorities, has been signed, the wrangling is not over. The issue of a minority veto over constitutional amendments will be revisited when the permanent constitution is written in 2005, by the elected parliament. As big a threat as the bombs posed to communal harmony in Iraq, any inability to make the necessary political compromises would be far more fatal.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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