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Re: the reason FIL stays away
Posted by Fil (Guest) - Friday, August 27 2004, 14:50:47 (CEST)
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Do not go on claiming superiority because I have chosen to answer you this one instant.
I would post this as a reply to your affectionate post "Dear Fil" but this will do.

Of course, for comical relief, I have on many occasions read InsideAssyria but I do not read everything. I now know it is a blast having dinner with you. At times the short title gives it away at other times I quickly scan the text for the usual (27000…Yeh-heh....Jewish God) in that I know that I have read this before and I steer away from it. If I have read once before
then yes, the message is well taken but after reading it tens of times it becomes home work.

There are other folks that contribute in this forum and I do appreciate some of what they have to say. There are others which have not though of their own other than being a cheering section for some of Inside Assyria boys. This is human nature; we may disagree on a few things but there is no need to dump ridicule and insults on the other. Be assertive as much as you like but do not heap insults and inappropriate language on people you do not know.

Some of your points are well taken. I may support the idea of librating our people from the old regime and at the same time disagree on how the war and the American policy is conducted. A bomb or sanction does not differentiate between a Muslim and a Christian. We defend the oppressed and appose the aggressor.

Technically we are considered Iraqis and since early 1920s we have been treated like second hand citizens by the Iraqis. Oppressed by our own citizens. Furthermore, what our people endured for the last 2600 years was not a picnic.

Fourteen Hundred (1400) years ago the word “American” was unknown and this same land was invaded by the same people that you are defending and you are so obliged to show equality towards (I do not mind that). When the 400 thousand Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula rode in our lands they did not arrive as visitor bearing gifts. They had a scimitar in their hands and a religion that you either rejected and died (they killed you dead) or you converted to Islam (the religion of peace) to save your hide. Was it Gentle persuasion? Was it Democracy? Or was it forceful and savage invasion and conversion. Would you have defended us then? It is the same situation if not more. You need to answer this.
For the time being let us call the Americans invaders but I do not see them anyone forcing and imposing death upon Muslims to convert to Christianity.

We have lived in harmony with these people and always in fear of lives. When you fear for your life you are NOT an equal. So I ask where is the equality in that? The Assyrians never intentionally killed any Arabs or Kurds. Yes at times we have defended ourselves against their constant desire to annihilate us. Our numbers attest to that.

I am not a good Christian and I will not forgive trespasses. That is the code I lived with when I was in Iraq and it remains so. As citizens of a country we should all have equal rights. I and many of “the Boys” do not think equality is a real thing in Iraq. When your rights are trampled on you will make some noise. Do you like us to just grin and bear it? The boys and girls make a few writing attempts calling for some rights and it is you that squeals and twist in pain and agony.
You and I live in a different world. I can not slap you silly for what you say, or what you think and write. In Iraq that would be a different story and you would not be the defender of the underprivileged that you are. The same people that you defend would skin you alive but I could be wrong because you would give in and join them.

Your notion of, if you can not beat them or if you are not equal to them then be one like them. To that I say, they have already claimed a lot of us by force. I, plus many others choose to be what we are. We are good law abiding Iraqi citizens and would like to live in harmony with every citizen of Iraq. We are Assyrians by ethnicity and Christians by faith. We have never done these people any harm.

On the other hand, you are what you want to be and I will respect your choice but please do not through these cyber tantrums trying to be the guiding light for us. For all intents and purposes you have made your choices and joined in with what you and your boys consider your ancestral relatives. The ones that came from the Arabian Peninsula bearing gift of equality and human rights.

Being the consistent person that you are I am sure you would write and give the same answers.

Fil



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