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Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Monday, October 15 2007, 7:43:59 (CEST)
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I always hear Assyrians rejecting the modern Chaldeans as rightful descendants of the ancient Chaldeans and Babylonians. They insist and accept the fact that the Catholic church revived the named "Chaldeans" to refer to the converts to Catholicism. In other words, "Chaldean" is only for religious and denominational issues. However, if anyone googles Assyrians and whenever the modern Assyrians are mentioned it's always related with the Christian church. It seems like "Assyrian" is being used as a religious name for nestorians and Christians of Iraq in general. Therefore, it would be fair to argue that Assyrian is just being used as religious name today since one has to be of the Christian faith, in particular Nestorian. Since that is the case, what does that mean for those Assyrians who do not follow the Christian faith such as Atheists, Agnostics, Muslims, etc? where does that leave them? are they not allowed to identify with that name? what about the Iraqis of Hilah and surrounding areas they proudly call themselves Babylonian, does that mean they can't use it either? Either way, it is crystal clear that Assyrian is being used more as a religious name rather than an ethnic term. There is no wonder as to why historians, scholars and learned men do not see modern Assyrians very important. I have never seen a program on History channel or any other networks talking about ancient Assyrians and todays Christians of Iraq.

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