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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Wednesday, March 10 2004, 17:49:18 (EST)
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...I don´t know if it was coincidence but I got blocked before being able to answer this decent and heartfelt question...dealing like this...in these kinds of civil exchanges would help us all grow...guess what the church wants?

Dear Parhed,

There is a previous post about an Aramean website saying antiAssyrian things and trying to promote our extinction and one of the worst websites was http://www.aram naharaim.org/assyrians.htm (take the space out between aram and naharaim for it would not post that name on this forum so previous post seperated them and you need to take the space out to see that webiste). As an Assyrian, instead of attacking Assyrian Christians for being victimized by their enemies because of their Christianity... why don't you put your Assyrian talent with your enormous energies and verbal skills to countering these antiAssyrian claims and debating these people?

Just an idea how all Assyrians, can be a resource to helping stop all the antiAssyrian crap that is being propogated.

appreciate the advice and the calm manner in which it was delivered. I have to say that to my way of thinking...all religions aside...ALL the people of BetNahrain are descended from the Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Hurrians, Sumerians, Amorites and all the wonderful cultures that made that the Cradle of Civilization..as I said before..if you go to the Iraqi web page you´ll see on the home page all you need to know to understand that Muslims in Iraq are proud of their Assyrian heritage, they don´t appreciate turncoats is all...they don´t stop at the Muslim Conquest but take justifiable pride in all that the Arabs were able to do with the rich cultures they found there..as well as the Persian culture...you don´t think in Mecca and Medina they had the kind of splendour these people built in Spain and passed on to Europe do you?

I see this as a religious squabble and I see what the West has done to us as a result of our willingness to miss the larger picture. NO ONE can destroy my Assyrian guts...NO ONE...I don´t care what words they use..facts...pictures...guns...knives, swords and missles. Kill me and you´ll still never take away the way I lived...as an Assyrian.

I´ll be damned if I´m going to jump out of my skin everytime someone somewhere wants to make me doubt anything. I never believed I was Assyrian..thought it too preposterous and I would have gone on believing that...and NOTHING I have EVER READ by Aprim and the rest would have convinced me..in fact I hated the very idea of saying it just because of people like them and the humiliating ways they go on and on...

BUT...there came a day when I was in the Metropolitan Museum in New York...rushing to see my dear and beloved and never seen in real liffe Impressionists...and the elevator left me on the second floor to make my way through the Assyrian Wing..and I was rushing past when something caught my eye...and I never had seen it before...I read the card on the wall and it said "Assyrian"...and then "Babylonian"..and other cards mentioned "Chaldean"...and I was two hours getting to the rest of the museum..and in a week I had permission to come there nights after work and copy the first sculpture of BetNahrain I ever made...and that was hundreds of sculptures ago.

I am Assyrian...I know it now. Something grabbed me by the neck and shook me hard and I almost heard a voice say WAKE UP...and the next time I made fun of all our Aprims my mother said..."they are trying their best...if more of us did that and didn´t run after Europeans and Americans..maybe we would get somewhere"..and that was that and that was almost 30 years ago.

I didn´t come to being Assyrian through the Church...I always hated that place even before...I do NOT like being told about things I can´t see or touch...or feel. But I KNOW I am Assyrian and I KNOW all my brothers and sisters are over there now..and if some went to Christ and others to Muhammad and they have fought and killed each other..as who hasn´t...it still doesn´t matter or change anything..just as the Civil War in America had brother killing father...but in the end..when several Aprims and BooHoos were calling for vengeance and retliation aginst their "enemies"...Abraham Lincoln, that giant of a humble man...said...no. He said..."A house didvided against itself will not stand". It was his wisdom...his compassion, his steady head and decent heart that saved America...the same is true for us. We HAVE no enemies but our past and our misunderstanding of history and its lessons..fueled mostly by a jealous and murderous clergy that wants to win one for Christ.

I want to survive for Ashur and NOT be sacrificed for Jesus...that nice young Jew..I refuse to believe that our long ride through history is over...and I will NOT let the Christian Roman Imperial Corporate Church that MURDERED Christ...now use him to get me to obey their whims and wishes or any of its branch offices teach my children that Assyrians EVER ran to the hills to hide..waiting on a Jew religion to come give them HOPE and COURAGE to live again....

THAT statement is my "enemy"..as it is the enemy of peace and prosperity for all Assyrians in BetNahrain...regardless of whether they dumped Ashur for Jesus or Muhamad or Buddha...now you tell me what kind of hidden agenda I must have...how much more out in the open can I be?

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