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Re: doublespeak spoken here
Posted by Shushan (Guest) - Tuesday, September 7 2004, 12:24:41 (CEST)
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farid wrote:
Assyrian Muslims..having refused to lay down and die...like when did they ever...are making the United States "rethink" elections in Iraq...it`s no victory..not in the usual sense...shattering Iraqi society and leaving it in ruins is the Bush strategy and it`s working too well...our peope are playing their parts..unfortunately...it was in the script..at least they`re behaving true to form...

I have a few questions for you.

We all know that Sadam's regime was brutal and unfair and at times evil to its people with gassing of the kurds and arabization policies. You and Tiglath talk a lot about Iraqi's being Assyrian Muslims. Do you really think that many Muslims living in Iraq identify themselves as Assyrians, considering the lengths Sadam went to to Arabaize Assyrians, do you think that anything but Iraqi national pride was instilled in the school and political systems? Sure they are probably proud to be the site of the center of the start of civilization and the garden of Eden, but I read an article once where they talked about that in a major magazine and never mentioned Assyrian, they just said Iraqi's ancestors... so don't you think that Iraq will eventually consume the Assyrian name and identity as arabization tried, and that is a good reason for Assyrians to be vocal, and if there are Assyrian Muslims, they should be fighting to make democracy stable and working with their Assyrian Christian brethren to make Assyrian a more sizable voice in Iraq?

And don't you think that the majority of the Muslims are Arab and only some Assyrian and some intermixing and not all Assyrians as some keep impying? I would not mind if all Iraq took the Assyrian identity but couldn't that just be a ploy to minimize Assyrian Christians and their indigenous rights? And aren't most Iraqis just as proud to be Arab as we are to be Assyrian... so why do you make it sound like the insurgents are Assyrian? That is why we American Assyrians are so proAmerican cause we don't want to be associated with people against our own country, and you continually stressing that making insurgents out to be all Assyrian, who the American goverment see as terrorists, even though I know you see them as freedom fighters. Then you get made when Assyrian Christians lving in America and many citzens are vocally in support of their country of America... of course we are, that is were our loyalty lies. We can think invading Iraq was a mistake and feel horrible for the turmoil created and hope our country does right by Iraq, but we are Americans and support out country.

And why do you cheer on the insurgents? Granted I understand that people were killed, homes and jobs lost so there are a lot of angry Iraqis but aren't some of them foreigners coming in to prevent democracy? And isn't democracy the only hope right now for a stable free prosperous Iraq and one with ethnic and religious tolerance? These insurgets are disrupting reconstruction efforts which not only hurts the Iraqi people getting back to prosperity, the more US soldiers they kill, the more pressure Americans will put on our withdrawal and if they withdraw too soon, not only will democracy fail and chaos rule, and Iraw loose all the reconstruction efforts owed them, but there will be no religious freedom and won't the fanatics take over.. and not only will Assyrian Christians and all Christians there be in trouble, so will all non fundamentalist Islam like the insurgents more than likely are be in grave danger, including Ashurists and Atheists and any other nonMuslim religion anyone is brave enough to profess to in an Islamic state. By the way, are there any Assyrians that follow the religion of old that you and Tiglath are trying to revive of Ashur? and how many? And what do the Muslim majority think and are they seen as dhmimii or infadel?

Just curious.
Shush



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