The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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Got Fear?
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Saturday, February 23 2008, 20:02:37 (CET)
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Contrary to what our nationalists say I maintain that there isn’t a reason on earth for anyone to be afraid of our people uniting. That this is some bogus claim made to bolster their own sense of self-importance meant to mask the fact no one gives them even a second thought. Also that no one is out to deny their so-called exclusive ties to the ancient Assyrians…why would anyone even care?

But let’s look at the opposite argument….is anyone, for any reason, determined to force the issue? Is it in anyone’s interest to keep this bogus claim alive…to insist that we MUST be related to the ancients and not only related but that today only Christians can be “real” Assyrians? Before plowing on it needs to be said additionally that this exclusive-Christian thing is being tempered by those of us who claim that the church should have nothing to do with “national” issues…these same supposedly secular Assyrians now grant, regally, that you don’t have to be Christian to be Assyrian...but when you get down to the fine print, everything they call “Assyrian” is still Christian….but at least a few have come to see the fallacy in speaking too loudly about only Christians qualifying as Assyrians.

That they still believe this is easily understood for only by doing so can they avoid the criticism that Iraq already IS filled with Assyrian descendants and further that if any of them have complaints to make it is as a Christian-Assyrian minority, and not as Assyrians, because the majority of Assyrians in Iraq are Muslim descendants of the ancients. But even that gets shaky when you read actual history and find out that they haven’t even been persecuted for that, for their religion..and since they haven’t been robbed or persecuted for their Christian faith,..,and since they are no more Assyrian than any other Iraqi..on what basis then can they complain, piss and moan, to the world? What about? Dhimmi status has PROTECTED them…has guaranteed them their own religious leaders ruling over their communities…no doubt Jews and Muslims living in Christian nations would have LOVED to have equal “second-class” class status as Christians enjoyed among Muslims.

Back to the question of who, outside our own community, would have an interest in maintaining the claim that a. There are direct descendants of the ancient Assyrians and that b. they are exclusively Christian, with a side-bar stating that Christianity “saved us”…and c. We are persecuted etc by Muslims. Who could that be?

As to being saved by Christianity that would be our churches who’ve tried to disguise the fact that we saved THEM at great cost to our children and ourselves. But, in an era of increasing national awareness, a religious identity alone would not do for the last thing our churches wanted was for us to be known merely as Christian minority Iraqis or, worst of all, Arabs. We needed a “national” name that could stand in stark but equal contrast to any existing ones in the MidEast, all of which denote Muslim nations. Presto…the Assyrian “nation” was born.

But what about the idea that we are direct descendants of the Assyrians…who would have benefited by that…who took an avid interest in our community around about the time those discoveries were made that led Euros to pronounce to the world that they had discovered the children of Shalmanessar? Well, who was there at the time, swarming all over the place with the avowed purpose of using our Christian communities as missionaries-in-training..as new-era evengelicals to go among the heathen Muslims and “save” them…who? Why European and American missionaries, that’s who.

Now what do you suppose their motive could have been….could still be?



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