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How Must Majdolin Yonan Feel...

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, May 5 2008, 21:57:47 (CEST)
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Most likely few of us remember who she is. She was a Chaldean wife and mother whose apartment in Baghdad was struck by an American “smart bomb” a few years back. Her husband was mangled, she was blinded, her three year old daughter killed and another daughter ripped from her bleeding womb, dead.

Majdolin’s daughters never made it to our list of martyrs…her babies names were never read aloud at our martyr day festivals…no outraged articles appeared about American callousness…or indiscriminate bombing of Iraqi civilians in order to win an illegal war fought under false pretences for oil and to create an unending supply of “terrorists”…mostly outraged parents and family, to ensure a constant supply of tax dollars to those who would ‘defend” us….from enemy children….700,000 of whom this Christian nation caused to starve to death…nothing of the kind appeared on any of our webpages or broadcasts. They weren’t mentioned in any churches beyond the funeral but never after.

I wonder how she felt never hearing her family mentioned by us? I wonder if she used to attend martyr festivities herself before, with her husband and maybe their first daughter? Did they file into church in Baghdad and light candles for martyrs? Did they listen to the names read aloud with prayers for their souls? Did she listen as fiery nationalists told of all the violence our innocent people suffered? I wonder if she goes any more? Does she hear us say “never forget”, knowing that we forgot her children?

It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like the first time she noticed her babies weren’t on the honor roll call of the dead…and each August 7th it must hurt all over again, never mind at Christmas or what were once birthdays, or could have been. On the day of the martyrs it must be bitter to think her loss and the murder of her children somehow don’t count…aren’t counted among our tragically murdered…I wonder if she asks herself what the reason could be?

It is sort of strange…but then, in this insane nation we’ve made for ourselves it makes a kind of horrible sense. You get a hint when Aprim calls the murder of her babies, the one time he mentioned it…”collateral damage”…and that in war, “these things happen”. Add that to the sorts of lies we tell about how Muslims and Islam have been hunting us down for 1300 years and how Islam caused our numbers to dwindle and that today Muslims are determined to wipe us out etc. Don’t forget to add that our nationalists begged for this war against Iraq, parroting all of Bush’s claims about the threat from “Islamic Terrorists” and “jihad”…which we were only too happy to validate by thier “expierence”. Even though people like Jumblat have never been able to substantiate their claims.

When you put it all together the only distinguishing characteristic between Majdolin Yonan’s two innocent babies and the names on our martyr’s list is that her children were murdered by Christians…while those we honor had the good fortune of being killed by Muslims. Had a Muslim bomb exploded in that apartment building who can doubt, not even Aprim and Jumblat, that the Yonan babies would have been at the head of the list and way before August 7th, Peter Jassim would have added their names to the list he keeps for himself and articles would have appeared on aina and zindalite decrying “cruel and inhumane Islam”.

Just as Cindy Sheehan had to learn the hard way through the death of her son in Iraq, that our government is not to be trusted until it proves itself trustworthy…maybe Majdolin has learned something about “Assyrian” Christians she never could have learned any other way.

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