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Bdar Khan, Qurds and the Missionary Position...or,
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, May 12 2011, 20:27:51 (UTC)
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In the last 25 years at least, in America, the reactionary, Fascistic, Republican, Conservative forces have used Jesus to get their way much as the missionaries did abroad; to distract people while they took them to the cleaners. No working-class stiff in his right mind and even partially informed would vote for the true agenda of the Conservative Fascists, so they've dredged up Jesus and Gay marriage and "values" and patriotism and taxes and finally war, to mask their real intentions.

It's instructive to see in Dr Joseph's excellent book how these same, mostly Protestant missionaries, as front-men for their Christian governments, did the same to the Nestorians of the MidEast, both in Ottoman lands and in Persia, as well as around the globe wherever resources were greatest. The "great" missionary drive of the 18th and 19th centuries just happened to coincide with the late Industrial Revolution and the all-consuming need for petroleum as a better fuel to run the heavy machinery of the Western Christian powers.

Not just oil but naval bases and other resources were in great demand and so the governments teamed up with Jesus sending missionaries to probe, win confidence, bribe, extort and divide....always with the added plus that they could call for their government's intervention when the natives got restless, a perfect set-up for gunboat diplomacy...besides, "How can you turn your back on JESUS?"...and if you do, well don't you and your children deserve about the worst that can happen to such unregenerate heathens?

The following are some excerpts from the second chapter of Dr Joseph's "The Modern Assyrians of the Middle East"...just to sort of give the flavor of what these people did to the easily-duped East Christians...how they instigated sectarian divides, strove to encourage converts to take on the suicidal task of converting Muslims, meddled with the dominant Kurds to the point where retaliation aginst the missionaries took the form of attacks on the local Christians who welcomed these foreign agents to the hitherto isolated mountains and plains where for centuries Muslim and Christian had existed in greater peace and harmony than ever did Christians with other Christians.

Comparing the reaction to missionaries in Persia, which was mild, verses the Ottoman Empire Dr Joseph points out,

"In the mountains of Kurdistan (note: no one, absolutley no one, including our ancestros ever referred to that region as "Assyria") however, circumstances were different. There the political situation was such that only one year after the establishment of a missionary station among the Nestorians over seven thousand of them were massacred."

Here again we have the Armenian genocide "syndrome"...that is, placing the blame on Muslims who for centuries committed no such atrocities, when in reality it was some drastic measure taken by Christians which brought on such a sea change in relations....after only ONE year.

"A correspondent of one of the London daily newspapers, in giving an account of that massacre over a hundred years ago, accused the American, Catholic, and Anglican missionaries of being the immediate cause of that outrage."

Of course they were...they all went there with a mission in mind which could not help but inflame the Muslim population as well turn the Christians against each other much as they had in Europe...which was to divide the Christians and use them to evangelize the Muslims. If common sense didn't tell you that was a rude and insensitive thing to do to people who welcomed you into their country, Muslim law clearly forbade such activity. They went in there looking for trouble and when it came they were either immune, protected by their governments, or gone, leaving the Christians to suffer the consequences...as will happen again.

Bdar Khan was the great chief of the Kurdish tribes...

"His rule is said to have been just and peaceful. Two American missionaries who visited him before his downfall reported that under his government the guilty found no escape and that bribery and favoritism were unknown there."

This is the same Badr Khan whom Aprim slanders as waking up all of a sudden one morning with a keen desire to slaughter thousands of Christians, just because "Muslims are always like that". And yet he, and the Kurds, hadn't been like that at all....rather they'd lived in peace and cooperation with the Nestorians...again, it's Armenian genocide syndrome at work...placing the blame for completly uncharacteristic and sudden violent behavior on Muslims rather than on the Christians who clearly did something unusual and unwise to bring it about.

Ainsworth, a missionary, and Rassam, who dug alongside Layard, on visiting the center of Kurdish power...

"...found the Nestorian patriarch alone, serving as acting-governor in place of Sulayman...Ainsworth would write later that the Amir of Hakkari (Nurallah) and Mar Shamman were on excellent terms until the arrival of the American missionary-physician Dr. Asahel Grant."

Such was the trust and goodwill between Nestorians and Kurds that in the Amir's absence the patriarch was left in charge. Again, something dreadful must have happened to change all this and cause the coming massacre...and that something could not have been anything done by the Kurds, who up to then had shown themselves trusting and friendly with no hint that anything was amiss....we have to look to what was new, what was introduced into the region, what hadn't been there before, not what was already there, to understand why things soured and who was responsible. And the something new and disruptive was the missionaries with their clearly stated goal of first dividing the Nestorian community and then using the new converts to convert Muslims to Jesus. That had never been tried before, that was the something new and foreign and brought to the region by foreign Christian missionaries...had they never come, there would would have been no massacre and much less of everything else bad which would soon multiply.

Naturally Aprim pins the blame on Badr Khan and his "Muslim bloodlust" etc. But we expect that from this racist, jingoist, engineer turned "hysterian of his peepil".



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