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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, February 16 2007, 23:11:15 (CET)
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Missionary Position II

It’s significant to note that when asked to produce any documents proving their claims of nationhood or Assyrian ethnicity, all we can show are letters from missionaries to other missionaries and then letters from missionaries to embassies and, one assumes, letters back. The responses from embassies can be discounted because they aren’t going to know enough or care to dispute such claims to Assyrian nationhood etc. because who’s giving anything out based on such claims?

As to the missionaries, that’s another matter. Pity the poor missionaries who, for their pains, got boiled in oil whenever they took themselves seriously and wandered out without the Seventh Army at their back. Or who, as in Urmia in the late 1800s came to convert our own Christians to their brands of Christianity…and pretty well succeeded too. They must have misunderstood their mission, or modified it in order to get back alive…heathens had proven strangely hostile to such brazen effrontery as to appear in their midst telling them that they, their children and certainly their ancestors would all rot in a Christo/Judo hell…unless.

Instead they decided it was safer to convert Christians and we were even more pleasing to them because we lived among Muslim countries, where the oil happened to be which the governments back home, well apprised of and keenly supportive of missionary work, like the later Peace Corp…could benefit by driving a “friendly” wedge, a spiritual one no less, between the native Christian population and their Muslim neighbors…sort of enlisting them on the side of a different god and different country too.

And since we resisted being called “Arab” Christians…what was left but to invent a new “ethnicity” for us…and was born the idea, in missionary heads at least, that we were indeed the “lost” Assyrians…and we were exclusively Christian too…and therefore their’s to “save”…and since it was the Archbishop of Canterbury who relayed the promises of the British government when England was floundering around at the beginning of her war against the Ottomans, to Marshimun and he attached us to their cause.,…the missionaries proved to be a curse to us all…no matter how many free teabags they handed out.

We may well be such eternal suckers because we avoid every chance to strengthen and exercise our minds, content to rely on missionaries and their letters to prove who we are instead of showing it through deeds.

The issue still stands; for any kind of serious request or consideration, such as even a driver’s license, one must show serious and officially acceptable proof of nationality…and we have no such documents and never have had and never will. We can make all the claims among ourselves and to the bewildered press that we want to…but that’s all…and we’ll be treated as oddities not Assyrians.

No one, no one in the world can deny that the Assyrian heritage survived, modified and handed down differently by Assyrians who converted to different religions and adopted the customs of the people who originated those religions…no foreigner or Iraq has any problems with that…but what no one will seriously put up with or accept is our claim that the only “real” Assyrians today are those who turned to Jesus and not to Muhammed…this is patently absurd, as a way of determining “ethnicity” and certainly nationality.

We only hurt our own cause by presenting our racism and narrow bigotry as our best understanding of what a modern nation and people must be.

This sort of missionary dicking around in the service of their respective governments was well known by the Muslim authorities who weren’t fooled for long…just as later the Peace Corp found less and less countries willing to take their workers, no matter how sincere individual workers may have been.

The proof that we are Assyrians lies with us…no one else. So far there’s precious little that we, Christians, have done to bolster our claim…though no one can deny we place great hope in Issaiah. But that’s only so we can prove the guy’s bible was right.

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