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=> On Periodically Scalping Aprim

On Periodically Scalping Aprim

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, November 10 2008, 21:05:29 (CET)
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Nothing personal. Aprim is a symbol, nothing more. He represents Assyrian “crybabyhood” masquerading as nationalism. Even for that he isn’t worthy of notice except that he adds to the misery of Iraqi Christians, admonishing them to be “true Assyrians” by remaining in Iraq, when he ran....confronting the Iraqi government, when he ran...and making suicidal demands, when he ran. Christians of Iraq, who’re having a hard enough time surviving the war Aprim helps fund, have to additionally listen to him berate them for accepting any help at all from either the Iraqi government or the Kurds. Since they receive nothing from Aprim...what are they supposed to live on? They are told to remain in Iraq to “maintain an Assyrian presence”...dead or alive. They are supposed to hold the fort for Aprim and his ilk while Aprim sits 7000 miles away helping stir the Kurds, as he did the Iraqi government, to view them as a potential fifth column...one Aprim wants to send guns to so they can get “what they deserve”.

Native Americans learned during their peaceful uprising in 1971 that calls for the return of indigenous lands is sedition...a crime. A crime which all governments take seriously and quickly move against. If the United States, with its democratic principles and history of civil rights etc will not recognize the native rights of people whom no one disputes are who they say they are and who, barely 100 years ago, were still being chased by the United States Army and being massacred...what does Aprim expect from the Iraqi government....in a time of war? Especially when no one but Aprim and his cousins believe they are the lineal descendants of Ashurbanipal, with any legitimate claim on any land in Iraq?

Hells bells native Americans even have signed treaties in their possession from Congress promising them huge tracts of land...yet there’s no way to force compliance...and if Native Americans make too much fuss over this theft they face prison and worse. So, what is Aprim taking about? What could be his real motive, since this path to a “nation” gets nowhere.

First off is personal aggrandizement. Instead of being merely an unemployed engineer who prints his fantasies, he can be a “spokesperson for the Assyrians” and “author”, trading on the naivete and good manners of clueless gringos as he regales them with his “history”.

Aprim claims that Muslims hold down Assyrians...block them from achieving anything of significance...treat them as second-class etc. One would think that, given his escape to the West, Aprim would have taken advantage of his freedom to perform wonders...or at the least achieved far more than he could have had he remained a second-class citizen in Iraq. However, it needed no trip to the West to create his own version of history. He could have done that in Arbil or from a coffee shop in Mosul. He also could have printed his books and distributed them among his friends and cousins. I seriously doubt the government would have interfered...except as he encouraged Christians to “demand” this and that.

In the West there are countless publishers who would have been glad to consider a real history of that exotic region. There are numerous universities and libraries at which Aprim could have done real research...experts he could have met with which he never could have from Iraq. The West is loaded with opportunity and resources...and yet after landing here Aprim sits in his room and concocts history books that could as easily been written in a mountain village in Hakkari. Had he been serious at all he could have enrolled in one of Dr Joseph’s classes, but that would have reduced his grand vision of himself as Ashurbanipal’s son.

Anyone today encouraging Native Americans to “demand” this and that would be viewed by both the government AND Native Americans as an “agent provocateur”...someone in the pay of the government whose task it is to stir up the Natives, set them up for government retaliation....and this, I’ve often thought, is precisely Aprim’s task in the West. Not for pay....I wouldn’t accuse him of that and in truth no one would pay for such a thing for who fears Assyrians? But that he would do this as part of a “strategy” to gain the world’s sympathy I think highly likely. After all, it’s the same attempt at ingratiation that he makes on his own behalf.

His entire rationale for his hangdog life and expression is that he was “held back” from reaching his true potential...held back by “perfidious” Islam. To make his case valid he has to show Muslims as vicious, untrustworthy and capable of extreme violence. It is these qualities which he claims “held him down”. Since he can’t very well interest anyone in his own biography of “oppression”, he’s latched onto the Assyrians as a symbol...as a metaphor for his personal degradation and lost opportunities. He is committed to slandering Islam, not for the benefit or sake of Assyrians, but for his own sake....in order to gild the truth about his own incompetence and lack of intestinal fortitude.

Listening to him rail against Kurds and Arabs in his wonderfully distorted and lying account of “history” most gringos are moved to compassion for all Assyrians have endured....and, that Aprim has endured. “No wonder”, he tries to make them think, “you people (and you, Aprim) have been brought so low...in fact, it’s a marvel that you’ve done anything at all....” In light of all that Aprim claims the Assyrians suffered, both he and they come out looking much better. They are “survivors” who’ve made lemonade from Muslim lemons.

Aprim values the Assyrian “heritage” for what it does for him....for how it allows him to escape the nagging doubt that he was never much of an achiever anyway, Muslims or no Muslims. To maintain this cover Aprim needs Muslims to be “bad”...he needs to have incidents he can point to which prove his contention that Islam held him down, because look at what it’s STILL doing.

After his brush with life...with life among Muslims, Aprim has been thrown to the ground bleeding, he claims. It never crosses his mind to get up, wash off and carry on. He doesn’t seek to thrive...to overcome. Aprim prefers to lay right there where he fell and “survive”...survive as a symbol, a reminder, a victim who “bears witness” to what was done to him. Naturally he resents Assyrians who go beyond that point...who rise again (or who avoided being knocked down in the first place) and carve out a place of their own. Their success and ability to overcome adversity takes the shine off of Aprim’s claim that survival is the best anyone can do under the “oppression” of Islam. But anyone could have thrown Aprim to the ground, and he would have kept himself there...Muslims or Muslims. You can see this by the way he runs from confrontations, from challenges, from having to rely on himself and his best intellect...all of which was lacking in him when he lived among Muslims....and yet he will blame the Muslims, when there are no Arabs attacking him in the West...where only fellow-Assyrians have challenged him...and he’s lain there yelling for protection and hurling accusations as if he was still in Iraq being run over.

Life, not Arabs, ran Aprim over. And it would be cruel to hold his limitations against him. He’s the best Aprim that he can be. But what is inexcusable and needs pointing out, is his cavalier way of harassing haranguing Christians in Iraq, making them no friends among the dominant majority which holds the power of life and death over them. He uses them and the more insecure their position and the more dangerous and difficult, the more Aprim can justify himself...the more he hopes it is obvious to the world that Muslims, indeed, abused and caused Aprim’s low self-esteem. That’s the part which requires censure and an occasional scalping.

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