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=> Is There An Assyrian Nation?

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, February 16 2007, 16:41:18 (CET)
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No, of course not. No nation can exit outside of a piece of territory which belongs to it and is held by it. The only possible application of that term to us is in its archaic usage as a tribe…as an Apache nation, for instance. But let’s not insist on remaining backwards on our path to the future.

And more to the point, we were never a nation, not since we became Christians. The Assyrians, on being forcibly converted to Christianity by the Romans, were also subject to the Romans and before that to the Persians and then periodically to one or the other. We never ruled ourselves under one Christian ruler, as a nation. Not for very long anyway.

Certainly by the time the Arabs came our territories of old were still ruled by Persians and Romans so this talk of how the Arabs conquered our “nation is wildly inaccurate to say the least. What they conquered was the Roman and Persian nations’ rule over us. As far as the Christians living under the harsh rule of the Byzantines were concerned, the Arabs liberated them…and then joined with them to build a new and reinvigorated culture, divided between two religions with the Muslims always in the majority.

The Christians of BetNahrain divided themselves among Nestorians and Monophysites with some no doubt remaining orthodox…and rather than any sort of cohesive Christian entity they were at war with one another from the very beginning over details and interpretations of the nature of Christ, his mother and heaven etc. They hated each other for the sake of their sects and religious beliefs and they have gone on hating each other for centuries, only attempting recently to disguise their religious wars by creating political fronts, which nonetheless carry on their initial feuds over Jesus Christ.

This is not the stuff you make nations of…and so I say we have not been a nation since turning to Christ. It certainly wasn’t his fault, poor fellow…more likely it’s been the resistance to imperial orthodoxy by heretical sects whose bishops were war leaders as well, in a manner of speaking…and whose battles are all about heaven and not earth.

To prove we haven’t even the very basics of a nation…or even a People let’s imagine that our much longed for day comes and the United Nations agrees to hear our plea and consider our demands for an Assyria…and asks us to send our representatives… that would be the end of our beginning.

You know that at this call for representatives Sargon Dadeeshoo and all the usual suspects, would race to be the one…only he’d get tripped and then set upon by Kenna, who would himself have Pascale Warda riding his back while digging her nails into his eyes…and she would straddles by John Nimrod, belaboring her with his cane…who would himself have the fingers of Mar Bawi round his throat, while Mar Meelis chewed on his Mar Bawi’s shins…and Praidon Whatever was driving his boot up Meelis’ rear end…who himself would be receiving wild kicks and blows from Alphonse Odishoo…who would be… well, you get the picture.

The appointed day and hour would come…and no representative for the Assyrians would have survived the process to put in an appearance.

This is not a nation…it is a number of Christian sects, dating back from the Byzantine Empire, who’ve never found anything more important to do than fight over a Jew carpenter…and never will. They’ve merely added a “National Front” to each religious sect so they might appear “political” and therefore, I guess, more legitimate.

However, there is Iraq…and Iraq, or Uruk, if you prefer, is the nation of the descendants of all the Assyrian people and other glorious cultures of that land, from all the tribes whoever attacked and then settled there and mixed their blood and talents and irrespective of whatever religions they brought with them, or which religion dominates now. Our Muslim brothers and sisters have long ago accepted this...but the Christian sects, who can’t accept Christ without coming to blows or going to court, refuse to join…though most Assyrians would like nothing better than to live in peace in Iraq, their nation, their real nation.

And as for the accusation that Muslims have been cruel and nasty in the past and at times, and so how can we trust them or think they are the same as us...the answer simply is; the way all other people who’ve been mean and cruel to each other have done it…by trusting, by trying again and by learning how not to inflame murderous passions…and if we would only agree to stop working up old hatreds and playing on old fears and losses…maybe we could join the human race too.

But which sect, or its respective political front, wants to hear this?

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