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Re: Assyrian, Syrian, Asori
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, February 6 2008, 4:07:54 (CET)
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Shlama19 wrote:
>I'm not gonna go back and forth about this because we did and clearly are not gonna agree, but I will quote you on one thing.
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>No it's not too much to ask for at all. We should all live in a free united Iraq whether Christtians Shiites, Muslims, Arabs, Assyrians and whoever else. That is my point as well and I agree with you on that. Maybe I was taking it out on you instead. Anyways, good work as always. Take care.
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>If you believe in this open freedom I take it you will recognize us as Assyrians from now and on.

...not unless you can prove it. You all say "how come no one asks the Greeks to prove who they are...why only us"? In fact, the Greeks do have to PROVE who they are...if they expect any official recognition...if a Greek losses his passport he can dance, shout Yassoo, eat souvlaki and pray to Jesus all he wants to...but it won't get him anywhere....anyone can do those things...you need OFFICIAL evidence for OFFICIAL recognition.

..you have none...none that would be accepted by anyone except your cousins..and they don't run anything anywhere.

...you can be "Assyrian" the same way anyone else can...no more and no less. You can be Assyrian because you DO Assyrian things...and Assyrians were NEVER Christians or Muslims...for as long as they appear in world history, they believed in Ashur. Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Atheists, Shinto, Zen...all of them can "be Assyrians"...but one of you or them can claim to be specially descended from the ancients.

...I'm an "Assyrian" in the sense that I find myself attracted to and impressed by the ancients...the ANCIENTS. I spent 30 years studying and copying their sculpture...I spent almost half a million dollars, raised through the sale of my OWN sculptures on three Assyrian monuments...the Ashurbanipal Monument was the first Assyrian monument to be errected anywhere in the world for the last 2500 years....THAT'S how I'm "Assyrian". I respect my parents and their parents and all our ancestors...for the Christians they were...whether Christians of Iraq or Persian Christians or American Christians or Australian Christians...but we are Christians, not Assyrians...and Iraq or Persian and not Assyrian by nationality, ethnicity, genetically or all the other ways in which you try to trick people.



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