If the insurgents manage to create strife between the Muslim sects, Shias and Sunnis may be provoked into ditching non-sectarian alliances and falling back on sectarian loyalties.

• 如果反动分子挑起了穆斯林什叶派和逊尼派之间的纷争，可能会分裂无宗派联盟，使联盟成员重新忠于各自的信仰。