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Posted by Paul Younan (Guest) - Friday, August 20 2004, 16:54:08 (CEST)
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>.......and how about making it REALLY patriotic and add Psalm 137:8-9 on it somewhere?

The condemnations of a qaddisha are terrible things, khizma. They are not lightly uttered, and they are heard in shmaya.

The murder of innocent infants can never be justified, but it was a practice which the Babylonians had not refrained from in their own massacres...of Assyrian infants in Nineveh, of Jewish infants in Jerusalem and of countless others. Therefore, their children were not spared either.

Your feeling of universal love is admirable khizma, but it must not be divorced from a keen sense of justice. Babylon had for many years slaughtered other nations without mercy and carried them into jilutha. The heart of the Psalmist who had seen his beloved city the scene of such horrible butchery was vengeful. His pen pronounced a similiar sentence upon Babylon.

As for placing this psalm on my logo for nationalistic reasons - I'm not a Babylonian. We too, along with the Jews, suffered from Babylonian butchery. We too, along with the Jews, rejoiced at the fall of Babylon. As an Assyrian, I would much rather place the words of Meshikha in Matthew 12:41 on my logo.

-Paul

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Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - Thursday, August 19 2004, 18:55:50 (CEST)
- Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/19 23:22
  - Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/19 23:28
    - Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/19 23:41
      - Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/19 23:49
      - Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Tiglath - 08/20 14:27
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/20 16:54
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/20 17:46
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/20 18:47
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/20 19:18
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/20 19:42
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/20 20:57
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/20 21:37
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/20 22:50
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/21 00:13
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? parhad - 08/21 01:22
        
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Tiglath - 08/21 07:58
        Re: Is This Any Way To Treat An Assyrian? Paul Younan - 08/21 18:49

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