Pejman notes an article in the Washington Post that recognizes how Sunni groups are willing to participate in writing the new constitution of their country.

Influential Sunni Arab leaders of a boycott of last Sunday’s elections expressed a new willingness Friday to engage the coming Iraqi government and play a role in writing the constitution, in what may represent a strategic shift in thinking among mainstream anti-occupation groups.

The signs remain tentative, and even advocates of such change suggest that much will depend on the posture the new government takes toward the insurgency and the removal of former Baath Party officials from state institutions. But in statements and interviews, some Sunni leaders said the sectarian tension that surged ahead of the vote had forced them to rethink their stance.

Iraqis voted Sunday for seats in a 275-member transitional parliament, which will appoint the government and draft the constitution this year. In all likelihood, the parliament will be dominated by members of the country’s Shiite Arab majority and by ethnic Kurdish Sunnis from northern Iraq, leaving Sunni Arabs and others who oppose the presence of foreign troops in Iraq with little representation.

“We are taking a conciliatory line because we are frightened that things may develop into a civil war,” said Wamidh Nadhmi, the leader of the Arab Nationalist Trend and a spokesman for a coalition of Sunni and Shiite groups that boycotted the election. “The two sides have come to a conclusion that they have to respect the other side if they want a unified Iraq.”

There’s more, visit to read the rest. But I’m going to stop here, because there is not going to be a civil war. Repeat after me: There is not going to be a civil war.

While, yes, the minority Sunnis ruled over the majority Shiites during Saddam’s reign, but they are continuously realizing that they will not be persecuted for being a minority (unthinkable in the Middle East, I know!). The election was a definite line of demarcation of this, and the referendum on the constitution will be another. Why? Because if there is a specific favor to Shiites or a specific disfavor toward Sunnis in it, they can easily just not vote for it. Simple. Done. That’s why their government is going to have to be secular and inclusive, so that everyone may partipate and be happy with the openess if the political process. Not even they are willing to war on that.